Anyone got a clue about this? I can't resolve it.
Ryan O'Neill wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I have an installer that works great for all Win platforms, except Vista
> where it will fail to register a DLL on specific machines. It runs on
> most Vista installations fine (under admin and limited user accounts
> which prompt for admin access). I did manage to get to a machine that
> exhibited the issue yesterday and after running the MSI from the command
> prompt, it installed correctly. I understand what happened there with
> the automatically elevated privileges using the command prompt but I
> can't understand why the normal UAC prompts did not allow the installer
> to write the DLL registration to the registry.
>
> I think perhaps the systems it fails on have a policy that is
> disallowing my installer registry writes, but I'm out of ideas.
>
> In testing it has proved to install correctly with;
> a) Admin accounts.
> b) Non admin accounts.
> c) Non default user admin account.
>
> The method I am using to write to the registy is via the usual Registry
> tag, as below;
> <Component Id="C_MainDll" Guid="{XXXXXXXXX}">
> <Registry Root="HKLM"
> Key="Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Toolbar">
> <Registry Name="{YYYYYYYYYY}" Type="string"
> Value="My toolbar" />
> </Registry>
> <Registry Root="HKCR" Key="CLSID\{YYYYYY}"
> Value="My toolbar" Type="string" />
>
> Obviously there are many more registry tags as well.
>
> I'm really stuck here, it works on most Vista systems and then the
> remainder it will work after being installed from the command prompt.
> Any help would be very much appreciated.
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
> Ryan
>
>
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