annoying mshta.exe behaviour

[Guest]

On Windows 2000 Pro SP4 mshta.exe represents the following problem: by starting an uninstaller (an ordinary 32bit .exe) via the Add/Remove Programs applet (mshta.exe) and having the uninstaller spawn a child process (which should execute until the next reboot occurs) causes the mshta.exe to freeze. Only after the spawned child process is shutdown the Add/Remove Programs applet regains responsiveness - does anyone know is this behaviour by design i.e. an uninstall should never spawn any child processes OR can it be circumvented _programmatically_

TI
Mik

PS. I suspect that the same occurs also on XP and probably on NT too

 

[Jerold Schulman]

On Windows 2000 Pro SP4 mshta.exe represents the following problem: by starting an uninstaller (an ordinary 32bit .exe) via the Add/Remove Programs applet (mshta.exe) and having the uninstaller spawn a child process (which should execute until the next reboot occurs) causes the mshta.exe to freeze. Only after the spawned child process is shutdown the Add/Remove Programs applet regains responsiveness - does anyone know is this behaviour by design i.e. an uninstall should never spawn any child processes OR can it be circumvented _programmatically_?

TIA
Mika

PS. I suspect that the same occurs also on XP and probably on NT too.

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Jerold Schulman
Windows: General MVP
JSI, Inc.
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