MSI installer automatically starting after application already installed when using "Everyone" option?

Question

I have an application that was created using Visual Studio which contains an installation project. When I run the MSI that is built, 3 Windows Services are created. Everything installs fine, the services are there and I can start them, when I choose the option to install for "Just Me".

When I choose the option to install for "Everyone", all users on this machine, the services are still installed fine and I can start them while I am logged in as the same user who installed them BUT when I log in as a different user and try starting the application using a shortcut, the installer starts up and tries to uninstall the services. Weird thing is that it only uninstalls 2 of the 3 services.

Again, if I install using "Just Me" I am having no issues at all, it seems to be linked to the "Everyone" option. I am not sure how to even begin looking into this as I am new to setup projects (this project was created by someone else) so any help would be great.

I'm thinking in one of the installation folders a file must be missing for the second user and that is why the installation folder opens up again?

Thanks for any help.

SOLUTION: The issue was with the DISABLEADVTSHORTCUTS property of the MSI because the shortcut that was installed for everyone was an Advertised Shortcut as far as I understand. There are a few ways to get around this using a post build event or using ORCA...we ended up using ORCA and adding the DISABLEADVTSHORTCUTS = 1 property to the MSI.

Solution and better explanation:

https://jcrawfor74.wordpress.com/2011/08/17/setup-app-config-during-msi-install-msi-re-installing/

https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/255905

Answer 1

try to find called schema.msi under C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio. This prototype is used in the consecutive generation of your deployment msi file. Then you can use orca to add DISABLEADVTSHORTCUTS=1 to the Property table. So from then on all your msi files will create the standard shortcut.