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Jun 20, 2007

Ok, this is really odd.We just upgraded our install to use InstallShield 2008, and just rebuilt.When our application gets installed on Vista, everything that the installer writes to HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT (which is mostly a LOT of COM dll registration) ap...

Jun 20, 2007

thats good to know. fortunately, we are not using the LockPermissions table. There is one row in it, and it looks like its coming from a merge module, but it is referencing a folder.

Jun 20, 2007

well, after more research, I have discovered that something removed ALL permissions from HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT (but not from sub keys) on my machine that i'm testing with. Now the bigger question - what removed the permissions?I'll continue testing and ...

Jun 20, 2007

Most of the data is being extracted from the com components at build time by installshield, so it looks like its going into the registry table.We also have a few registry keys that we manually added, also appearing in the registry table.

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