I recently had an issue where attempting to install one application
would actually invoke the installer of another. More specifically, I
was trying to install Adobe Acrobat Reader 9 and the InstallShield
installer was (after performing some processing of it's own) launching
the Belkin Wireless G InstallShield installer. This is infuriating as
it prevents the installation of Adobe Reader.
Well, after a bit of faffing I finally found the solution.
It
would appear that the Belkin InstallShield installer is either creating
or modifying a registry setting at
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\App
Paths\Setup. The default value for that key was the Belkin installer. I
simply deleted the entire "Setup" key. The Adobe Acrobat installer
then works a dream and the Belkin nonsense is removed.
I would
imagine that this issue is down to InstallShield rather than Belkin
(although they may have written a crappy InstallShield script) as there
are numerous other accounts of InstallShield executing the wrong
installer. So hopefully this fix should work for all of them.
Enjoy :-)
