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Aug 20, 2008
03:54 PM
Registry key for per-user Basic MSI
Hi,
I have a Basic MSI setup that installs per user, but I don’t see the registry entries under:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall\{GUID…}
I can see the uninstall information under HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE but that entry is overwritten when the setup is installed for another user, so I cannot rely on that. So what is the correct registry entry for a user-only setup in Basic MSI to look up? I need this to look up the installation path in my application.
Thanks
I have a Basic MSI setup that installs per user, but I don’t see the registry entries under:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall\{GUID…}
I can see the uninstall information under HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE but that entry is overwritten when the setup is installed for another user, so I cannot rely on that. So what is the correct registry entry for a user-only setup in Basic MSI to look up? I need this to look up the installation path in my application.
Thanks
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Aug 25, 2008
05:54 PM
The correct registry entry is undocumented. The recommendation is to use the MSI APIs instead:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa370130(VS.85).aspx
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa370130(VS.85).aspx