The ICEs are paranoid and assume that someone could change ALLUSERS when they
install the product in
order to do a per-user install. In this case the component needs a per-user
keypath in order to
keep track of it for each user, which is why it wants an entry in HKCU. I'm
not sure why this is,
because if you use the 'ProgramMenuFolder' as the Id of the directory, I'd
expect that to resolve to
the user's Start Menu folder for a per-user install. Does anyone else know why
that doesn't happen?
Some of us, myself included, think that the ICE warnings are just a pain, and
ignore them. This
mainly came about because at the time I discovered them, they seemed to just be
wrong ("ALLUSERS is
set to 1, why do you need per-user stuff??!!!"). I found that the installer
worked fine, despite
the ICE errors, and since no-one on any forums could explain what was going on,
I ignored them.
My installer is run from a bootstrapper, so the user doesn't have a chance to
change the ALLUSERS
property. In my case though, all my customers are developers, who always have
admin rights anyway.
Ignoring these warnings hasn't caused any reported problems so far in a
year and half with
several thousand customers.
Rob
dangle123 ... wrote:
> I have a shortcut component in my setup package that fails ICE
> validation because it doesn't "use a registry key under HKCU as its
> KeyPath". I have the ALLUSERS property set to 1. This will set the
> ProgramMenuFolder to the "All Users" profile. Why does it still need to
> have a registry key under HKCU as its KeyPath? What do I need to do
> other then creating a registry key that won't be used?
>
> Thanks,
> -- Leo
>
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