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I am building a .net 4.5 (c#) app and packaging it with Squirrel for Windows. As expected, the releasify command creates one Setup.exe file and one Setup.msi. The Setup.exe installs the app as expected on the two windows 10 computers I had access to.

On the windows 7 I used to build the app though, when I try to open Setup.exe, the window where I double clicked the icone goes in "please wait mode" (with the blue progress circle instead of the usual mouse pointer) forever. If I check the processes open at that point, I see three Setup.exe that I cannot kill with the kill process button or via Taskkill command. And all I can do at that point to kill them is pretty much rebooting.

As to the Setup.msi, it seems to do nothing I can see (tells me something like "checking requirements", and once it has, it just closes with no visible effect).

Any idea about what's going on or how I could find out?

stuartd
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John K
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  • Have you tried just running the .msi file directly? – stuartd Apr 08 '16 at 16:22
  • Think so. But to make sure after reading your comment I rebooted, directly went to .msi, to no apparent effect (I checked C:\Users\MyUserName\AppData\Local and couldnt' find my app). – John K Apr 08 '16 at 16:35
  • Looking at [the docs](https://github.com/Squirrel/Squirrel.Windows/blob/master/docs/using/install-process.md) running the MSI wouldn't work anyway. It's odd that it fails on the machine you built it on and works on others, it's usually the other way round! – stuartd Apr 08 '16 at 16:54
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    Deactivating my antivirus solved the issue >< I wish Avast had told me "hey I'm blocking this" and saved me a few hours – John K Apr 11 '16 at 10:15

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Apparently years later this keeps hitting people so I'm posting the answer I had first put in the comments:

Deactivating my antivirus solved the issue >< I wish Avast had told me "hey I'm blocking this" and saved me a few hours

John K
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