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Chapter 24: View Reference
Organize Your Setup View
Table 24-3: General Settings (cont.)
Setting Description
Create MSI Logs To specify whether Windows Installer 4.0 or later should log your installation, click the
ellipsis button (...) in this setting, which launches the Logging Options for Windows
Installer 4.0 and Later dialog box. This dialog box is where you specify whether Windows
Installer should log your installation. You can also use this dialog box to customize the
types of messages that are logged.
There are three possible values for this setting:
• No—Installations are not logged. This is the default value.
• Yes—InstallShield populates the MsiLogging property with the default value of
voicewarmupx.
• Custom—InstallShield populates the MsiLogging property with the value that you
specified on the Logging Options for Windows Installer 4 and Later dialog box.
If the value of this setting is Yes or Custom, and if the installation is run with Windows
Installer 4.0 or later, as well as Windows Vista or later or Windows Server 2008 or later,
the following occurs:
• The installer creates a log file according to the appropriate logging mode: either
voicewarmupx (if the Create MSI Logs value is Yes) or whatever custom value you
specified on the Logging Options for Windows Installer 4.0 and Later dialog box.
• The installer populates the MsiLogFileLocation property with the log file’s path.
• A Show the Windows Installer log check box is added to the
SetupCompleteSuccess, SetupCompleteError, and SetupInterrupted dialogs. If the
end user selects that check box and then clicks Finish, the log file is opened in a
text file viewer or editor.
The Create MSI Logs setting applies to installations that are run with Windows Installer
4.0 or later on Windows Vista and later systems or Windows Server 2008 and later
systems. The Show the Windows Installer log check box is not visible in run-time
dialogs that are displayed on earlier systems that are running earlier versions of
Windows Installer.
For more information, including details on how to customize the types of messages that
are logged, see Specifying Whether Windows Installer Installations Should Be Logged.
Fast Install If you want to reduce the time that is required to install a large Windows Installer
package, consider selecting the check boxes for one or more of the following options:
Summary Information Stream Settings
• No system restore point is saved for this installation
• Perform only File Costing and skip checking other costs
• Reduce the frequency of progress messages
This setting configures the Windows Installer property MSIFASTINSTALL, which can be
set at the command line.
Windows Installer 5 includes support for this setting. Earlier versions of Windows Installer
ignore it.
Windows Installer databases are implemented as COM structured storage, and COM structured storage
files usually contain a Summary Information Stream. The Summary Information Stream contains
information about your company and the product that is being installed.
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