Re: [WiX-users] Creating Per-User Registry Entries in a Per-Machine Installation
Are you sure that the HKCU registry entry exists for any user other than the one that performed the installation? In my experience only the installing user receives the HKCU entry. I guess I was a bit too optimistic - generally you seem to be right. But there's more to it, I have an example where it worked (a setup for a Word COM Add-In, that gets registered for all users in HKCU!) and I have to find out WHAT exactly makes it work. There's some hidden magic ... I'll keep you posted. -- View this message in context: http://n2.nabble.com/Creating-Per-User-Registry-Entries-in-a-Per-Machine-Installation-tp2206842p2216475.html Sent from the wix-users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. -- This SF.net email is sponsored by: SourcForge Community SourceForge wants to tell your story. http://p.sf.net/sfu/sf-spreadtheword ___ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
Re: [WiX-users] Creating Per-User Registry Entries in a Per-Machine Installation
I don't think this is possible, I would suggest that the right place to do this is in your application on first run not in the installation. Neil -Original Message- From: Chuck [mailto:electroch...@att.net] Sent: 24 January 2009 00:09 To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: [WiX-users] Creating Per-User Registry Entries in a Per-Machine Installation My application installs on a per-machine basis so that it is available to all users. I have InstallPrivileges=elevated and InstallScope=perMachine. In addition, the installer creates some registry entries for my application in HKLM because I have specified Root=HKMU. I would like to set some default registry values so that they are available to the individual user upon the first invocation of the application. The user must be able to modify those values and the values for each user must be distinct from those of other users. Therefore HKCU and not HKLM registry entries must be used. Is there a mechanism for the installer to create registry entries in the HKCU tree for each user in this scenario? If that is possible, can all such HKCU registry entries be removed when the application is uninstalled? Configuration: schemas.microsoft.com/wix/2006/wi, WiX binaries version 3.0.4909.0, WiXEdit version 0.6.1762.0 -- Charles -- This SF.net email is sponsored by: SourcForge Community SourceForge wants to tell your story. http://p.sf.net/sfu/sf-spreadtheword___ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
Re: [WiX-users] Creating Per-User Registry Entries in a Per-Machine Installation
Chuck, try: Property Id=ALLUSERS1/Property and set the initial registry values to HKCU. That did the trick for me. -- View this message in context: http://n2.nabble.com/Creating-Per-User-Registry-Entries-in-a-Per-Machine-Installation-tp2206842p2209180.html Sent from the wix-users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. -- This SF.net email is sponsored by: SourcForge Community SourceForge wants to tell your story. http://p.sf.net/sfu/sf-spreadtheword ___ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
Re: [WiX-users] Creating Per-User Registry Entries in a Per-Machine Installation
It isn't. IMHO, the best way to handle this is to put the default settings in the code or, if you must, put them in HKLM. Then your application reads from HKCU and if it doesn't find the setting there it falls back to where the default location is. That way you only write the settings that the user changes from the default (saves time and space). This is even more important since there is no good way to clean up all HKCU registry keys on uninstall. -Original Message- From: Neil Sleightholm [mailto:n...@x2systems.com] Sent: Saturday, January 24, 2009 01:40 To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Creating Per-User Registry Entries in a Per-Machine Installation I don't think this is possible, I would suggest that the right place to do this is in your application on first run not in the installation. Neil -Original Message- From: Chuck [mailto:electroch...@att.net] Sent: 24 January 2009 00:09 To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: [WiX-users] Creating Per-User Registry Entries in a Per-Machine Installation My application installs on a per-machine basis so that it is available to all users. I have InstallPrivileges=elevated and InstallScope=perMachine. In addition, the installer creates some registry entries for my application in HKLM because I have specified Root=HKMU. I would like to set some default registry values so that they are available to the individual user upon the first invocation of the application. The user must be able to modify those values and the values for each user must be distinct from those of other users. Therefore HKCU and not HKLM registry entries must be used. Is there a mechanism for the installer to create registry entries in the HKCU tree for each user in this scenario? If that is possible, can all such HKCU registry entries be removed when the application is uninstalled? Configuration: schemas.microsoft.com/wix/2006/wi, WiX binaries version 3.0.4909.0, WiXEdit version 0.6.1762.0 -- Charles -- This SF.net email is sponsored by: SourcForge Community SourceForge wants to tell your story. http://p.sf.net/sfu/sf-spreadtheword ___ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
Re: [WiX-users] Creating Per-User Registry Entries in a Per-Machine Installation
Neil Sleightholm wrote: ...I would suggest that the right place to do this is in your application on first run not in the installation. Rob Mensching wrote: IMHO, the best way to handle this is to put the default settings in the code or, if you must, put them in HKLM. Then your application reads from HKCU and if it doesn't find the setting there it falls back to where the default location is. That way you only write the settings that the user changes from the default (saves time and space). I'll take your advice and put the routine to write create the HKCU entries and default values into my application. This is even more important since there is no good way to clean up all HKCU registry keys on uninstall. If a user runs my application and later it is uninstalled, the users will have to live with the orphaned registry entry. Perhaps a registry cleaner will scrub it away. Few, if any, users will notice. george_r wrote: Chuck, try: Property Id=ALLUSERS1/Property That's what InstallScope=perMachine does and from http://www.joyofsetup.com/2008/04/01/new-wix-feature-setting-package-installation-scope/: If you specify perMachine, you must remove any Property element that sets ALLUSERS. and set the initial registry values to HKCU. Are you sure that the HKCU registry entry exists for any user other than the one that performed the installation? In my experience only the installing user receives the HKCU entry. -- Charles -- This SF.net email is sponsored by: SourcForge Community SourceForge wants to tell your story. http://p.sf.net/sfu/sf-spreadtheword ___ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
[WiX-users] Creating Per-User Registry Entries in a Per-Machine Installation
My application installs on a per-machine basis so that it is available to all users. I have InstallPrivileges=elevated and InstallScope=perMachine. In addition, the installer creates some registry entries for my application in HKLM because I have specified Root=HKMU. I would like to set some default registry values so that they are available to the individual user upon the first invocation of the application. The user must be able to modify those values and the values for each user must be distinct from those of other users. Therefore HKCU and not HKLM registry entries must be used. Is there a mechanism for the installer to create registry entries in the HKCU tree for each user in this scenario? If that is possible, can all such HKCU registry entries be removed when the application is uninstalled? Configuration: schemas.microsoft.com/wix/2006/wi, WiX binaries version 3.0.4909.0, WiXEdit version 0.6.1762.0 -- Charles -- This SF.net email is sponsored by: SourcForge Community SourceForge wants to tell your story. http://p.sf.net/sfu/sf-spreadtheword___ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
