My understanding is that Heat should produce the same result (on a clean
machine) that regasm produces (unless the binary is 64-bit only or if it is an
EXE instead of a DLL). If the machine heat is running on already had the binary
registered then most of the time it won't work (you have to unregister
everything you intend to harvest before you run the harvester, at minimum).
> Date: Tue, 27 Aug 2013 12:01:35 +0200
> From: trond.ander...@gmail.com
> To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net
> Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Fallback when not getting admin rights
>
> Thank you for your feeback.
> > I forget what the DropBox install experience was, but when I look at
> > those shell extensions they are all in HKCU, so they are per-user and
> > not per-system. That might work for you too.
>
> I run Regshot on my computer and looked at the changes in registry. A lot
> of the changes are in HKU, but there are quite a few changes in HKLM as
> shown below.
>
> We are currently using regasm to get our shell extension registered. Is it
> possible to avoid using regasm for shell extension registration? Any
> pointers to how this can be achieved? Currently we are using custom tasks
> for this. Here is an example on how we do it:
>
> <CustomAction Id="CA.CmdLine.RegisterShellExt" Property="QtExecCmdLine"
> Value='"[NETFRAMEWORK40CLIENTINSTALLROOTDIR64]RegAsm.exe"
> /codebase "[INSTALLLOCATION]$(var.SE.TargetFileName)"' />
> <CustomAction Id="CA.RegisterShellExt" BinaryKey='WixCA'
> DllEntry='CAQuietExec' Execute='immediate' Return='check' />
>
> Overview of registry changes while Dropbox installer was run:
>
> Keys added:
> HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows Media Player
> NSS\3.0\Events\{7F6A42D2-D502-47C2-A2D4-A5A62B1226B7}
> HKLM\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\explorer\ShellIconOverlayIdentifiers\DropboxExt1
> HKLM\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\explorer\ShellIconOverlayIdentifiers\DropboxExt2
> HKLM\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\explorer\ShellIconOverlayIdentifiers\DropboxExt3
>
> The first one probably doesn't matter for us, but we also will need icon
> overlay.
>
> Values added:
> HKLM\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\explorer\ShellIconOverlayIdentifiers\DropboxExt1\:
> "{FB314ED9-A251-47B7-93E1-CDD82E34AF8B}"
> HKLM\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\explorer\ShellIconOverlayIdentifiers\DropboxExt2\:
> "{FB314EDA-A251-47B7-93E1-CDD82E34AF8B}"
> HKLM\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\explorer\ShellIconOverlayIdentifiers\DropboxExt3\:
> "{FB314EDB-A251-47B7-93E1-CDD82E34AF8B}"
> HKLM\SYSTEM\ControlSet001\Control\Session
> Manager\PendingFileRenameOperations: ...
> HKLM\SYSTEM\ControlSet001\services\SharedAccess\Parameters\FirewallPolicy\FirewallRules\{7D6075E4-64CB-4AED-80A3-6DF08642ABE8}:
> "v2.10|Action=Allow|Active=TRUE|Dir=In|Protocol=6|Profile=Private|App=C:\Users\Tester\AppData\Roaming\Dropbox\bin\Dropbox.exe|Name=Dropbox|"
> HKLM\SYSTEM\ControlSet001\services\SharedAccess\Parameters\FirewallPolicy\FirewallRules\{D72FE29F-B264-46D2-A8E0-FFCADCF3E83F}:
> "v2.10|Action=Allow|Active=TRUE|Dir=In|Protocol=17|Profile=Private|App=C:\Users\Tester\AppData\Roaming\Dropbox\bin\Dropbox.exe|Name=Dropbox|"
> HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Session
> Manager\PendingFileRenameOperations: ...
> HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\services\SharedAccess\Parameters\FirewallPolicy\FirewallRules\{7D6075E4-64CB-4AED-80A3-6DF08642ABE8}:
> "v2.10|Action=Allow|Active=TRUE|Dir=In|Protocol=6|Profile=Private|App=C:\Users\Tester\AppData\Roaming\Dropbox\bin\Dropbox.exe|Name=Dropbox|"
> HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\services\SharedAccess\Parameters\FirewallPolicy\FirewallRules\{D72FE29F-B264-46D2-A8E0-FFCADCF3E83F}:
> "v2.10|Action=Allow|Active=TRUE|Dir=In|Protocol=17|Profile=Private|App=C:\Users\Tester\AppData\Roaming\Dropbox\bin\Dropbox.exe|Name=Dropbox|"
>
>
> Not sure how many of these would be applicable for us. Firewall rules -
> probably not.
>
>
> Values modified:
> HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Reliability Analysis\RAC\WmiLastTime: 75 A0 B5 46
> 5E A2 CE 01
> HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Reliability Analysis\RAC\WmiLastTime: C7 D0 DD 4D
> 01 A3 CE 01
> HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\SystemCertificates\AuthRoot\AutoUpdate\DisallowedCertLastSyncTime:
> 38 1D 55 ED 36 A2 CE 01
> HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\SystemCertificates\AuthRoot\AutoUpdate\DisallowedCertLastSyncTime:
> 25 93 69 47 01 A3 CE 01
> HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Perflib\009\Counter: ....
>
> There were some others in HKLM, but I don't think the Dropbox installer is
> responsible for these changes.
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