Re: [WiX-users] Fallback when not getting admin rights
Thank you for your feeback.
I forget what the DropBox install experience was, but when I look at
those shell extensions they are all in HKCU, so they are per-user and
not per-system. That might work for you too.
I run Regshot on my computer and looked at the changes in registry. A lot
of the changes are in HKU, but there are quite a few changes in HKLM as
shown below.
We are currently using regasm to get our shell extension registered. Is it
possible to avoid using regasm for shell extension registration? Any
pointers to how this can be achieved? Currently we are using custom tasks
for this. Here is an example on how we do it:
CustomAction Id=CA.CmdLine.RegisterShellExt Property=QtExecCmdLine
Value='[NETFRAMEWORK40CLIENTINSTALLROOTDIR64]RegAsm.exe
/codebase [INSTALLLOCATION]$(var.SE.TargetFileName)' /
CustomAction Id=CA.RegisterShellExt BinaryKey='WixCA'
DllEntry='CAQuietExec' Execute='immediate' Return='check' /
Overview of registry changes while Dropbox installer was run:
Keys added:
HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows Media Player
NSS\3.0\Events\{7F6A42D2-D502-47C2-A2D4-A5A62B1226B7}
HKLM\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\explorer\ShellIconOverlayIdentifiers\DropboxExt1
HKLM\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\explorer\ShellIconOverlayIdentifiers\DropboxExt2
HKLM\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\explorer\ShellIconOverlayIdentifiers\DropboxExt3
The first one probably doesn't matter for us, but we also will need icon
overlay.
Values added:
HKLM\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\explorer\ShellIconOverlayIdentifiers\DropboxExt1\:
{FB314ED9-A251-47B7-93E1-CDD82E34AF8B}
HKLM\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\explorer\ShellIconOverlayIdentifiers\DropboxExt2\:
{FB314EDA-A251-47B7-93E1-CDD82E34AF8B}
HKLM\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\explorer\ShellIconOverlayIdentifiers\DropboxExt3\:
{FB314EDB-A251-47B7-93E1-CDD82E34AF8B}
HKLM\SYSTEM\ControlSet001\Control\Session
Manager\PendingFileRenameOperations: ...
HKLM\SYSTEM\ControlSet001\services\SharedAccess\Parameters\FirewallPolicy\FirewallRules\{7D6075E4-64CB-4AED-80A3-6DF08642ABE8}:
v2.10|Action=Allow|Active=TRUE|Dir=In|Protocol=6|Profile=Private|App=C:\Users\Tester\AppData\Roaming\Dropbox\bin\Dropbox.exe|Name=Dropbox|
HKLM\SYSTEM\ControlSet001\services\SharedAccess\Parameters\FirewallPolicy\FirewallRules\{D72FE29F-B264-46D2-A8E0-FFCADCF3E83F}:
v2.10|Action=Allow|Active=TRUE|Dir=In|Protocol=17|Profile=Private|App=C:\Users\Tester\AppData\Roaming\Dropbox\bin\Dropbox.exe|Name=Dropbox|
HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Session
Manager\PendingFileRenameOperations: ...
HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\services\SharedAccess\Parameters\FirewallPolicy\FirewallRules\{7D6075E4-64CB-4AED-80A3-6DF08642ABE8}:
v2.10|Action=Allow|Active=TRUE|Dir=In|Protocol=6|Profile=Private|App=C:\Users\Tester\AppData\Roaming\Dropbox\bin\Dropbox.exe|Name=Dropbox|
HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\services\SharedAccess\Parameters\FirewallPolicy\FirewallRules\{D72FE29F-B264-46D2-A8E0-FFCADCF3E83F}:
v2.10|Action=Allow|Active=TRUE|Dir=In|Protocol=17|Profile=Private|App=C:\Users\Tester\AppData\Roaming\Dropbox\bin\Dropbox.exe|Name=Dropbox|
Not sure how many of these would be applicable for us. Firewall rules -
probably not.
Values modified:
HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Reliability Analysis\RAC\WmiLastTime: 75 A0 B5 46
5E A2 CE 01
HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Reliability Analysis\RAC\WmiLastTime: C7 D0 DD 4D
01 A3 CE 01
HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\SystemCertificates\AuthRoot\AutoUpdate\DisallowedCertLastSyncTime:
38 1D 55 ED 36 A2 CE 01
HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\SystemCertificates\AuthRoot\AutoUpdate\DisallowedCertLastSyncTime:
25 93 69 47 01 A3 CE 01
HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Perflib\009\Counter:
There were some others in HKLM, but I don't think the Dropbox installer is
responsible for these changes.
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