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Dennis Bareis

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More options Aug 24 2004, 7:16 pm

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From: Dennis Bareis <dbar...@KillSpam.labyrinth.net.au>

Date: Tue, 24 Aug 2004 19:16:37 +1000

Local: Tues, Aug 24 2004 7:16 pm

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

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On Tue, 24 Aug 2004 08:28:15 +0200, "Martin v. Löwis"

<mar...@v.loewis.de> wrote:
>Phil Wilson wrote:
>> Why can't ALLUSERS be used?

>It doesn't work on W9X. Of course, I *think* the
>expression

>Version9X or (ALLUSERS=1) or (ALLUSERS=2 and Privileged)

>might be pretty close to determining whether this is an
>allusers install - except that, on W9x, allusers depends
>on whether the system has user profiles or not.

Thanks, I'd guessed that it was going to be something like that but I
was hoping that Windows Installer was smarter than that (I should have
known better).

You'd think that MS could at least have documented the workaround to
this issue (a condition that complicated is not something we should
have to guess). But again I suppose only a small fraction of what you
need to know is documented..

I'll use your condition as it is close to my "worrst case scenario
guess".

Bye,
Dennis

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