Re: [WiX-users] Registry permissions in Wix

2008-06-15 Thread Bob Arnson
Carl Caulkett wrote: > It works fine if there is no existing registry key, but fails when it > tries to overwrite existing values. How was the original value written? It's possible to apply permissions that would prevent MSI from overwriting. Also, I've seen that error when the value being writ

[WiX-users] Registry permissions in Wix

2008-06-12 Thread Carl Caulkett
Wix 3.0.4123 + VS2005 Hello, I am working on an installer which writes values to a key within HKLM. It works fine if there is no existing registry key, but fails when it tries to overwrite existing values. I get the error message: "Could not write value Enabled to key \SOFTWARE\xxx\yyy\