https://remkoweijnen.nl/blog/tags/installaware/Recent content in InstallAware on Remko's BlogHugoen-usTue, 19 Feb 2013 15:52:33 +0000https://remkoweijnen.nl/blog/2013/02/19/cannot-create-shell-notification-icon-error-during-unattended-install/Tue, 19 Feb 2013 15:52:33 +0000https://remkoweijnen.nl/blog/2013/02/19/cannot-create-shell-notification-icon-error-during-unattended-install/<p>I was troubleshooting an unattended installation of a particular application. The install seemed to hang right away so I figured it was presenting some kind of message (error?).</p> <p>Using a Window Spy tool I made the setup process visible and saw the following message:</p> <p><a href="https://remkoweijnen.nl/blog/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/image.webp" class="glightbox thickbox" data-type="image" data-gallery="post-3034"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" style="display: inline" title="image" alt="image" src="https://remkoweijnen.nl/blog/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/image_thumb.webp" width="240" height="103" /></a></p> <p>The unattended install was supplied by the vendor and apparently they use InstallAware.</p> <p>The setup tries to create a Tray Icon, probably a setup progress indicator, but this fails because there is no shell running (the installation is pushed from a deployment server).</p>