The Windows Installer doesn't support that natively. You're much better off
writing separate registry values.
On Wed, Jul 27, 2011 at 4:50 PM, Balaji A.K. <ak_bal...@yahoo.com> wrote:
> Hi
> The situation is that there are two products which add to the same
> registry value (the same same setup MSM is used in both product MSI's for
> this). Lets say product 1 installs first and puts a reg value
> [Version]="1.0.0.0" under key HKLM\Software\Test and product 2 overwrites
> the reg value [Version] to "2.0.0.0". When product 2 is uninstalled, I am
> finding that the reg value is left as "2.0.0.0". I expected it to become
> "1.0.0.0". The WIX snippet is
>
> <Component Id='CP_VERSION_REG' Guid='xxxxxx' Location='local'
> Win64='$(var.Win64)'>
> <Registry Id='TEST_VERSION_REG' Root="HKLM"
> Key="Software\Test" Name="Version" Type='string'
> Value="%_BLDVERMAJOR%.%_BLDVERMINOR%.%_BLDNUMMAJOR%.%_BLDNUMMINOR%"
> KeyPath="yes" />
> </Component>
>
> What is the correct way to accomplish this rollback of registry values?
> Note that in my install execute sequence, I have <RemoveRegistryValues/>
> specified.
>
> Thanks
> Balaji
>
>
>
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