Maybe and no. You should be looking at the Windows Installer properties for locations. There are properties such as ProgramFilesFolder and ProgramFiles64Folder that resolve to those locations at install time. In your case, the more useful one is the FileKey property for your file.
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/aa368609(v=vs.85).aspx Your registry value is then something like [#filekey] (and add your #1) and that resolves to the path to the file wherever it was installed. Phil W -----Original Message----- From: Rick Hantz (Hotmail) [mailto:rick_ha...@hotmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, March 07, 2012 10:49 AM To: 'General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset.' Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Determining which OS is installed So would this work? I separated the command registry entry into two components. <Component Id="XXXXRegShellOpenCommand32bit" Guid="726CF30C-BC18-45A1-BAB1-3EEF08B8C10A" > <Condition> VersionNT64 >= 600 </Condition> <RegistryKey Id=XXXXRegShellOpenCommand32' Root='HKCR' Key=XXXX\Shell\open\command' Action='createAndRemoveOnUninstall'> <Permission User="Administrators" GenericAll="yes" /> <Permission User="Users" GenericAll="yes" /> <RegistryValue Type='string' Value='"C:\Program Files (x86)\XXXX\XXXX.exe" "%1"' /> </RegistryKey> </Component> <Component Id="XXXXRegShellOpenCommand64bit" Guid="9ADF87DE-D138-4AF1-ADE9-BDCB21736A0E" > <Condition> VersionNT >= 600</Condition> <RegistryKey Id='SmartListW32RegShellOpenCommand64' Root='HKCR' Key=XXXX\Shell\open\command' Action='createAndRemoveOnUninstall'> <Permission User="Administrators" GenericAll="yes" /> <Permission User="Users" GenericAll="yes" /> <RegistryValue Type='string' Value='"C:\Program Files (x86)\XXXX\XXXX.exe" "%1"' /> </RegistryKey> </Component> -----Original Message----- From: David Esiobu [mailto:david.esi...@citrix.com] Sent: Wednesday, March 07, 2012 10:18 AM To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Determining which OS is installed Hi Rick, Please see the documentation for WiX preprocessor statements: http://wix.sourceforge.net/manual-wix3/preprocessor.htm Note that you can't use MSI properties there because preprocessor statements affect the build process, not the runtime behavior. Hope that helps, David -----Original Message----- From: Rick Hantz (Hotmail) [mailto:rick_ha...@hotmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, March 07, 2012 1:00 PM To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: [WiX-users] Determining which OS is installed I need to install an URL handler, which means different path entries if you have a 32 or 64bit OS installed. I tried: <?if (VersionNT64 >= 600) ?> <RegistryKey Id='XXXXRegShellOpenCommand' Root='HKCR' Key='SmartList\Shell\open\command' Action='createAndRemoveOnUninstall'> <Permission User="Administrators" GenericAll="yes" /> <Permission User="Users" GenericAll="yes" /> <RegistryValue Type='string' Value='"C:\Program Files (x86)\XXXX\XXXX.exe" "%1"' /> </RegistryKey> <?else?> <RegistryKey Id='SmartLXXXXRegShellOpenCommand' Root='HKCR' Key=XXXX\Shell\open\command' Action='createAndRemoveOnUninstall'> <Permission User="Administrators" GenericAll="yes" /> <Permission User="Users" GenericAll="yes" /> <RegistryValue Type='string' Value='"C:\Program Files\XXXX\XXXX.exe" "%1"' /> </RegistryKey> But it errors at (VersionNT64 >= 600). I'm a first time WiX user, using VS11 beta and one of the latest 3.6 beta builds.. Appreciate any help. Thanks, RickH _____ I am using the Free version of SPAMfighter <http://www.spamfighter.com/len> . SPAMfighter has removed 102072 of my spam emails to date. 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