Can you give examples of the specific keys you are attempting to write? Vista and Win7 created the concept of protected registry nodes that are "owned" by Windows and they don't let others mess with them, but for back compat they swallow the related errors so it only causes silent failures. That sounds like what is happening in your case, but having the actual keys involved will help determine that for certain. -- Bryan
________________________________________ From: Kurt Jensen [kurt.jen...@ophir-spiricon.com] Sent: Thursday, July 01, 2010 8:32 AM To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: [WiX-users] Windows 7 Custom Action Registry problem I have a custom action that needs to create entries in the registry under HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE. The code is written in C# and uses Registry.LocalMachine.CreateSubKey(). I added some logging that tells me that the return value is not null and the custom action does not throw an exception. But the key is never created. What is really weird is that various functions are called that use OpenSubKey(). These functions also log correct return values and do not throw exceptions. But the key is never created. The custom action works fine in XP but fails in Windows 7. I am running the custom action with Impersonate="no". Kurt Jensen Senior Software Engineer Ophir-Spiricon www.Ophir-Spiricon.com <http://www.ophir-spiricon.com/> ********************************************************************** This email and any files transmitted with it are confidential and intended solely for the use of the individual or entity to whom they are addressed. If you have received this email in error please notify the system manager. This footnote also confirms that this email message has been swept by MIMEsweeper for the presence of computer viruses. www.clearswift.com ********************************************************************** ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This SF.net email is sponsored by Sprint What will you do first with EVO, the first 4G phone? Visit sprint.com/first -- http://p.sf.net/sfu/sprint-com-first _______________________________________________ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This SF.net email is sponsored by Sprint What will you do first with EVO, the first 4G phone? Visit sprint.com/first -- http://p.sf.net/sfu/sprint-com-first _______________________________________________ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
