After a great deal of wrangling with this issue earlier this year, I concluded that it's easier to get your app to check both locations for the registry keys ...
Wendell On Thu, Nov 12, 2009 at 1:00 PM, <phillip_sid...@dellteam.com> wrote: > Ok, so it was writing to the Wow6432Node. So the next question: > > How can I force a 32bit installer to install registry keys to both the > standard and Wow6432Nodes? > > Thanks. > > - Phil > > -----Original Message----- > From: Wendell Joost [mailto:wende...@gmail.com] > Sent: Thursday, November 12, 2009 12:19 PM > To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. > Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Windows Server 2008 and the registry > > Are you running on x86 or x64? 32 bit installer will be remapped on > x64 OS, If x64, registry entries redirect to Wow6432Node, e.g. > > HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Microsoft\Communicator > > instead of: > > HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Communicator > > Wendell > > On Thu, Nov 12, 2009 at 9:33 AM, <phillip_sid...@dellteam.com> wrote: >> I have an MSI that runs under an administrative account, it successfully >> updates the registry on Win2K3 and XP, but when I execute the same MSI >> on Windows Server 2008, it makes no changes to the registry. Note the >> installer log indicates that the install was completely successful! >> >> >> >> Is anyone else have similar issues? >> >> >> >> Thanks. >> >> >> >> - Phil >> >> >> >> >> >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ >> Let Crystal Reports handle the reporting - Free Crystal Reports 2008 30-Day >> trial. Simplify your report design, integration and deployment - and focus on >> what you do best, core application coding. Discover what's new with >> Crystal Reports now. http://p.sf.net/sfu/bobj-july >> _______________________________________________ >> WiX-users mailing list >> WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net >> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users >> > > > > -- > "Some people come visit Europe and are really let down when they find > out it's not like a credit-card commercial; others really get into > meeting all the quirky people and careening along narrow mountain > roads in rickety cabs driven by suicidal, gap-toothed Carpathians. I > guess it's pretty obvious which one you are..." - Justin Crevier, May > '01 > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Let Crystal Reports handle the reporting - Free Crystal Reports 2008 30-Day > trial. Simplify your report design, integration and deployment - and focus on > what you do best, core application coding. Discover what's new with > Crystal Reports now. http://p.sf.net/sfu/bobj-july > _______________________________________________ > WiX-users mailing list > WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Let Crystal Reports handle the reporting - Free Crystal Reports 2008 30-Day > trial. Simplify your report design, integration and deployment - and focus on > what you do best, core application coding. Discover what's new with > Crystal Reports now. http://p.sf.net/sfu/bobj-july > _______________________________________________ > WiX-users mailing list > WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users > -- "Some people come visit Europe and are really let down when they find out it's not like a credit-card commercial; others really get into meeting all the quirky people and careening along narrow mountain roads in rickety cabs driven by suicidal, gap-toothed Carpathians. I guess it's pretty obvious which one you are..." - Justin Crevier, May '01 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Let Crystal Reports handle the reporting - Free Crystal Reports 2008 30-Day trial. Simplify your report design, integration and deployment - and focus on what you do best, core application coding. Discover what's new with Crystal Reports now. http://p.sf.net/sfu/bobj-july _______________________________________________ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
