The validation assumes that you're writing something that
will add personalized settings when launching an advertised shortcut - you may
have seen Office do this if you install it using one user account, then click
one of the shortcuts to launch an Office application in a different user account
(you see a brief Windows Installer progress dialog). A lot of us aren't doing
this, of course.
Every component has a key path. If you don't specify one
WiX will use the first member of the component which can be a key path (File,
RegistryKey, ODBC). Windows Installer uses the key path to decide whether the
component is installed or not: if the key path is present, the component is
installed and Windows Installer will skip installing it (unless the
file is a newer version).
If you've installed your package per-machine, and you don't
use a suitable KeyPath, the installer may not install for another user. Or
something like that.
ICE64 is something to do with cleaning up a user's roaming
profile after an advertised application has been removed. I think. It's not very
clear.
You can suppress validation with -sv, and suppress a
particular ICE with -sice:ICEnn, e.g. -sice:ICE38.
--
Mike Dimmick
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Nick Johnson
Sent: 06 November 2006 08:01
To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: [WiX-users] Installing files to the My Documents directory
For the first one, I really don't know what's going on - the WiX tutorial doesn't even cover what a KeyPath is, let alone when and why I should create registry keys for one.
For the second one, the folders are created by an external program, and the installer shouldn't remove them on uninstall, even if they're empty. How can I tell the installer this?
-Nick Johnson
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