See also the Restart Manager (http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/aa373524(v=vs.85).aspx http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/des

See also the Restart Manager (http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/aa373524(v=vs.85).aspx http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/aa37...) Restart Manager along with Windows Installer will manage stopping and restarting running applications/services to make sure that executables, DLLs, configuration files etc are updated atomically and transactionally.