Not clear what you are doing here. Is your package 32-bit or 64-bit? A 64-bit package won't run at all on a 32-bit box, and a 32-bit package needs different flags to (reliably) access 64-bit areas of the registry on 64-bit machines. You haven’t given us enough information to reproduce what you are doing, nor specifically what you intend to do.
-----Original Message----- From: Maria Goncearova [mailto:maria.goncear...@towersperrin.com] Sent: Sunday, October 18, 2009 7:24 PM To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: [WiX-users] Problem with deletion of registry keys under 64 bit. Hi. I have a question about 64 bit. All I need is to create/add key values to registry on install and delete them on uninstall in 64 bit environment 2003 and 2008. This is the code, which I use under 32 bit to create a registry key and write some values(I use flag “NOT VersionNT64”): <Component Id="RegistryChangesComponent32Bit" Guid=" CE33CE9B-5838-4f28-A623-FEF8E4254849"> <Condition>NOT VersionNT64</Condition> <Registry Id='CreateExclusionListKey32' Root='HKLM' Key=' SOFTWARE\Microsoft\PCHealth\ErrorReporting\ExclusionList' Action='createKey'/> <Registry Id='AdministrationServiceKey32' Root='HKLM' Key=' SOFTWARE\Microsoft\PCHealth\ErrorReporting\ExclusionList' Name='AdministrationService.exe' Action='write' Type='integer' Value='00000001'/> <Registry Id='RemoveExclusionListKey32' Root='HKLM' Key=' SOFTWARE\Microsoft\PCHealth\ErrorReporting\ExclusionList' Action='removeKeyOnUninstall'/> </Component> This is the code, which I use under 64 bit to create a registry key and write some values(I use flag “VersionNT64”): <Component Id="RegistryChangesComponent64Bit" Guid=" 79368FDB-9A6A-430b-B8ED-97FDE93E89C6"> <Condition>VersionNT64</Condition> <Registry Id='CreateExclusionListKey64' Root='HKLM' Key=' SOFTWARE\wow6432Node\Microsoft\PCHealth\ErrorReporting\ExclusionList' Action='createKey'/> <Registry Id='AdministrationServiceKey64' Root='HKLM' Key=' SOFTWARE\wow6432Node\Microsoft\PCHealth\ErrorReporting\ExclusionList' Name= 'AdministrationService.exe' Action='write' Type='integer' Value='00000001' /> <Registry Id='RemoveExclusionListKey64' Root='HKLM' Key=' SOFTWARE\wow6432Node\Microsoft\PCHealth\ErrorReporting\ExclusionList' Action='removeKeyOnUninstall'/> </Component> But when I try to install in 2003 64 bit it gives the following error message: (Embedded image moved to file: pic24976.jpg) I goggled and found that some people had similar problem and they advised to use Root='HKCR'under 64 bit. So I changed my code to use HKCR root for 64 bit: <Component Id="RegistryChangesComponent64Bit" Guid=" 79368FDB-9A6A-430b-B8ED-97FDE93E89C6"> <Condition>VersionNT64</Condition> <Registry Id='CreateExclusionListKey64' Root='HKCR' Key=' SOFTWARE\wow6432Node\Microsoft\PCHealth\ErrorReporting\ExclusionList' Action='createKey'/> <Registry Id='AdministrationServiceKey64' Root='HKCR' Key=' SOFTWARE\wow6432Node\Microsoft\PCHealth\ErrorReporting\ExclusionList' Name= 'AdministrationService.exe' Action='write' Type='integer' Value='00000001' /> <Registry Id='RemoveExclusionListKey64' Root='HKCR' Key=' SOFTWARE\wow6432Node\Microsoft\PCHealth\ErrorReporting\ExclusionList' Action='removeKeyOnUninstall'/> </Component> In that case installation and uninstallation does not produse any warning dialogs and looks ok. Installation creates the following keys 1) HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Software\Microsoft\PCHealth\ErrorReporting\ExclusionList 2) HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Software\Wow6432Node\Microsoft\PCHealth\ErrorReporting\ExclusionList 3) HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Classes\Software\Microsoft\PCHealth\ErrorrReporting\ExclusionList 4) HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Classes\Software\wow6432Node\Microsoft\PCHealth\ErrorReporting\ExclusionList The problem is that uninstallation never deletes these registry keys under 64 bit(all 4 paths from 4 points above have all key values even after uninstall). Could you help me with this ? 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