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location of <programfilesfolder>
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Kelly Russell
, Aug 14 2001 19:40
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Kelly Russell
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Posted 14 August 2001 - 19:40
where does installshield get the "programfilesfolder" property from? I have a user that is showing C:\Winnt as the "programfilesfolder". ??? Any ideas?
Stefan Krueger
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Posted 14 August 2001 - 21:47
The Windows Installer runtime from Microsoft will retrieve this information, not InstallShield. I haven't found documentation, but I guess it reads it from registry key ProgramFilesDir under HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion
Ian Blake
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Posted 15 August 2001 - 10:32
Looking at log files it appears that the msi engine calls SHGetFolderPath to retrieve the various shell directories.
I do not know how the user has overridden the usual default.
baking
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Posted 17 August 2001 - 21:30
I have this same problem. If I import an msi file into ISWI, some of the predefined folders are messed up. If I choose to install a component in AppDataFolder from the drop down list it will create c:\AppDataFolder and put the files there.