Re: [WiX-users] Uninstaller breaks the registry

2010-07-27 Thread Blair
s. -Original Message- From: Ivo Beltchev [mailto:i...@roadrunner.com] Sent: Monday, July 26, 2010 11:58 PM To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Uninstaller breaks the registry What is the easiest way to write from a custom action into the Regi

Re: [WiX-users] Uninstaller breaks the registry

2010-07-27 Thread Ivo Beltchev
emoved if it (and all of its subkeys) are discovered to be empty > during uninstall. > > -Original Message- > From: Ivo Beltchev [mailto:i...@roadrunner.com] > Sent: Monday, July 26, 2010 9:46 PM > To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. > Subject: Re: [WiX-u

Re: [WiX-users] Uninstaller breaks the registry

2010-07-26 Thread Blair
ill be created if needed, and will be removed if it (and all of its subkeys) are discovered to be empty during uninstall. -Original Message- From: Ivo Beltchev [mailto:i...@roadrunner.com] Sent: Monday, July 26, 2010 9:46 PM To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. Su

Re: [WiX-users] Uninstaller breaks the registry

2010-07-26 Thread Ivo Beltchev
Please help, guys. I screwed up badly and need to fix this before the problem gets worse. My current idea is to run a custom action before upgrade that stores the registry key in a file and then another action after the uninstall to restore the key. I have implemented the custom actions, but I'

[WiX-users] Uninstaller breaks the registry

2010-07-26 Thread ivo
Hi In my installer I add a value to HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run. By mistake I set the action to "createAndRemoveOnUninstall", so now when you uninstall or upgrade my program it removes the Run key. Very bad. Is there anything I can do in the next version, so when you upgra