beaglelander
30th November 2009 09:23 UTC

This program might not have been installed correctly
  I'm getting the dreaded "This program might not have been installed correctly" message when running an NSIS exe on Vista / Win7. Note: the exe is not an installer, I use it to launch my application.

Before I get flamed to death, I do realise this question has been asked before, and the solution to everyone else's problem seems to use RequestExecutionLevel but that doesn't seem to work.

Here is an example of my problem:

Name "Tester"

>Caption "Tester"

>OutFile "tester.exe"

>RequestExecutionLevel highest


SilentInstall silent

AutoCloseWindow true

ShowInstDetails nevershow


Section ""


 MessageBox MB_OK "Hello World!"


  Quit

  

SectionEnd 

>

I have also tried RequestExecutionLevel admin & user but problem remains.

Any ideas?

Many thanks

pengyou
30th November 2009 09:41 UTC

I compiled your sample using NSIS 2.45 and ran it on my Vista system from a standard account ... and did NOT get the "program may not have been installed correctly" message.

The same thing happened when I ran it from an administrator account.

beaglelander
30th November 2009 10:22 UTC

Thanks for trying pengyou. I'm running it on Win7 with UAC enabled (set to default level) and get this message with or without the "RequestExecutionLevel highest" line.

I've just tried it on a Vista machine (setup a new user account with UAC) and I do not get the message with the "RequestExecutionLevel highest" line included, but when I remove it I DO get the message.

So this would seem to imply that the line fixes it on Vista, but not on Win7... Oh dear.

Can anyone else with Win7 give this try? If this is a problem with NSIS/Win7 then it's something we're all going to have to contend with sooner or later.

pengyou
30th November 2009 11:12 UTC

Are you using NSIS 2.45? If you are using an earlier release then you'll have problems with Windows 7 because earlier releases of NSIS do not use the new manifest format that Windows 7 requires. If Windows 7 does not find the right manifest then you'll get that kind of message when you run your "installer".

Edit: I tried running tester.exe (compiled using NSIS 2.45) on Windows 7 RC from a standard account and from an administrator account and did not get any "did not install correctly" messages

beaglelander
30th November 2009 11:49 UTC

Ah ha! I've upgraded to 2.45 and you're absolutely right.

Thanks very much for your help - problem solved :-)