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Phil Wilson

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More options Aug 24 2004, 2:41 pm

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From: "Phil Wilson" <pdjwil...@nospam.cox.net>

Date: Mon, 23 Aug 2004 21:41:11 -0700

Local: Tues, Aug 24 2004 2:41 pm

Subject: Re: Is Install Per User or Per Machine?

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Why can't ALLUSERS be used?
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Phil Wilson
[MVP Windows Installer]

"Dennis Bareis" <dbar...@labyrinth.net.au> wrote in message

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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

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