Comments on: New WiX feature: Setting package installation scope

By: Bob Arnson

Bob Arnson — Wed, 07 May 2008 14:03:36 +0000

It’s automatic based on the value of the ALLUSERS property. You need to set that to switch between per-user and per-machine installs.

By: VEERENDRA N

VEERENDRA N — Wed, 07 May 2008 09:08:18 +0000

thanks bob,

will the installer skip the fact that the user is not having admin rights and go ahead and install in HKCU when we have HKMU as the root

thanks
viren

By: Bob Arnson

Bob Arnson — Tue, 06 May 2008 17:39:13 +0000

Use the registry root HKMU — it automatically adjusts based on whether the install is per-machine or per-user.

By: VEERENDRA N

VEERENDRA N — Tue, 06 May 2008 17:25:49 +0000

Hi,

We have a pecuiliar situation for the installation of our product, we need the msi to be setup in such a way that
1. if the user is not having admin rights then the msi should automaticalle put the registry entries in HKCU
2. If the user is having admin rights then msi will be setup permachine. using HKLM

now my thoughts are to have a variable parameter like $REGROOT and pass on HKCU or HKLM for the reg root. I am finding difficult to get the syntax to pass the parameter inside the wxs file. is this the right way of doing this or any other way is preffered?

thanks in advance

By: Joy of Setup » Highlights of WiX v3.0.4014.0

Joy of Setup » Highlights of WiX v3.0.4014.0 — Sun, 20 Apr 2008 05:26:38 +0000

[...] Added Package/@InstallScope. [...]