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From: dbar...@labyrinth.net.au (Dennis Bareis)
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Subject: Is Install Per User or Per Machine?
Date: 23 Aug 2004 16:18:23 -0700
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Hi,

This is either a hole in the API or I'm missing something obvious.

During an install how can I tell if the install is per-user or
per-machine?
Windows Installer obviously makes this decision at some stage.
The ALLUSERS property can't be used.
A verbose log doesn't show any likely properties.
There appears to nothing in the condition syntax to support it.
The Mode method of the session object doesn't supply it.
No other objects seem to supply it.

Any ideas?  At this stage I'll call this a limitation (if only in
documentation)...

I probably wouldn't care too much if it wasn't for the limitation in
the "Environment" table where unlike the "Registry" table I can't
leave the per-user/per-machine decision up to Windows Installer.

Thanks for any info,
Dennis