One solution I have seen implemented is to write an immediate custom action that runs before RemoveExistingProducts, queries the registry table for registry path and name, reads the values for keys in the table, and overwrites the value column of the registry table for the in memory database. This can be scoped by making a custom table that identifies which registry rows to migrate. This is essentially the same mechanism as the the registry search except you are required to write the registry search code yourself. This isn't actually a better solution, just different. It might be more maintainable and performant than all the registry searches and properties if you have a lot of registry values, but its a custom action so it will likely have bugs :). -Eric
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