I have a product with a similar requirement (it installs extensions to MS Office in both 32-bit and 64-bit flavors). From a 32-bit install, you can ONLY write 32-bit registry entries. I work around this issue using a Burn bootstrapper that installs the 32-bit support with the product, and installs the 64-bit support if installing on a 64-bit system and a 64-bit version of MS Office is detected.
-- John Merryweather Cooper Senior Software Engineer | Enterprise Service Applications | Continuing Development Jack Henry & Associates, Inc.® | Lenexa, KS 66214 | Ext: 431050 |jocoo...@jackhenry.com -----Original Message----- From: vikasyv [mailto:vikas....@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, November 5, 2014 12:07 PM To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: [WiX-users] Adding Registry Entries in both 32 and 64 Bits I have created an Installer which writes Registry Values to enable Chrome Extension (HKLM\Software\Google\Chrome). Till now, everything seemed fine. Recently, we found out that using 64 bit Chrome on a 64 bit machine will not enable the Extension after install and it only writes to the Wow6432 node like a 32 bit Installer would do. I tried adding flags like Win64=yes for 64 bit but it is not solving the issue. Here is my code snippet. <Component Id='RegistryComponents' Guid='{771E66CF-7086-4A56-AAF9-3571ADBEB9AA}' Win64='no'> <RegistryKey Id='ChromeExtnInstaller' Root='HKLM' Key='Software\Google\Chrome\Extensions\$(var.Extension)' Action='createAndRemoveOnUninstall'> <RegistryValue Name='update_url' KeyPath='yes' Type='string' Value='https://clients2.google.com/service/update2/crx' /> </RegistryKey> <RegistryKey Id='NativeMessagingHost' Root='HKLM' Key='Software\Google\Chrome\NativeMessagingHosts\<NM_ID>' Action='createAndRemoveOnUninstall'> <RegistryValue Type='string' Value='[INSTALLDIR]<Value>' /> </RegistryKey> <RemoveRegistryKey Action='removeOnUninstall' Root='HKLM' Key='Software\Google\Chrome\Extensions\$(var.Extension)'/> <RemoveRegistryKey Action='removeOnUninstall' Root='HKLM' Key='Software\Google\Chrome\NativeMessagingHosts'/> </Component> <?if $(var.Platform)=x64 ?> <Component Id='RegistryComponents64' Guid='{20A0BA25-0EFC-49F5-8945-24F084EC3635}' Win64='yes'> <RegistryKey Id='ChromeExtnInstaller64' Root='HKLM' Key='Software\Google\Chrome\Extensions\$(var.Extension)' Action='createAndRemoveOnUninstall'> <RegistryValue Name='update_url' KeyPath='yes' Type='string' Value='https://clients2.google.com/service/update2/crx' /> </RegistryKey> <RegistryKey Id='NativeMessagingHost64' Root='HKLM' Key='Software\Google\Chrome\NativeMessagingHosts\com.sling.wbsp' Action='createAndRemoveOnUninstall'> <RegistryValue Name='Default' Type='string' Value='[INSTALLDIR]com.sling.wbsp.json' /> </RegistryKey> <RemoveRegistryKey Action='removeOnUninstall' Root='HKLM' Key='Software\Google\Chrome\Extensions\$(var.Extension)'/> <RemoveRegistryKey Action='removeOnUninstall' Root='HKLM' Key='Software\Google\Chrome\NativeMessagingHosts'/> </Component> <?endif?> And in the Feature section: <ComponentRef Id="RegistryComponents"/> <?if $(var.Platform)=x64 ?> <ComponentRef Id="RegistryComponents64"/> <?endif?> Whether I use a 32 bit or 64 bit Installer, the Registry entries are only written to the Wow6432 node Looking up at the logs, this is what I see.. Executing op: RegOpenKey(Root=-2147483646,Key=Software\Google\Chrome\Extensions\<ExtnID>,,BinaryType=0,,) MSI (s) (F8:3C) [22:16:11:047]: Executing op: RegAddValue(Name=update_url,Value=https://clients2.google.com/service/update2/crx,) MSI (s) (F8:3C) [22:16:11:050]: Executing op: RegCreateKey() MSI (s) (F8:3C) [22:16:11:051]: Executing op: RegOpenKey(Root=-2147483646,Key=Software\Google\Chrome\NativeMessagingHosts\com.sling.wbsp,,BinaryType=0,,) MSI (s) (F8:3C) [22:16:11:051]: Executing op: RegAddValue(,Value=C:\Program Files (x86)\DishAnywhereDesktop\com.sling.wbsp.json,) MSI (s) (F8:3C) [22:16:11:053]: Executing op: RegCreateKey() MSI (s) (F8:3C) [22:16:11:053]: Executing op: RegOpenKey(Root=-2147483646,Key=Software\Google\Chrome\NativeMessagingHosts,,BinaryType=0,,) MSI (s) (F8:3C) [22:16:11:053]: Executing op: ActionStart(Name=RegisterProduct,Description=Registering product,Template=[1]) Can anyone help me with this problem? Thanks in advance. 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