Simon Topley wrote: > > We have recently been having issues with our COM interface and the > finger was pointed at the installers as ever. It seems in vista being > logged in as an Administrator doesn't mean what it once did. Most > programs are run by default as a user, you have to right click and "run > as administrator" then sign you name in blood and answer a phone in > central park within 5 minutes. When our software is run by a user it > uses some other virtual store hive that obviously doesn't contain the > COM registration for our product. All is well if you run as > administrator. > > ... > > I suspect that I am registering the interfaces incorrectly. I'm adding > all of the details manually (CLSID, TYPELIB blah blah blah) maybe there > is a COM registration component I'm not aware of that would take care of > this. If not then I'm not sure where the fix should be, should I be > adding this data to the registry with different permission levels or is > the problem in the software in the way we read from the registry (with a > KEY_READ which gets no redirection or KEY_ALL_ACCESS which gets the > redirection and make KEY_READ kind of pointless) >
Hi, Even though you are local admin on your machine, the process must be "elevated". For MSI, you get prompted for the elevation (correct me if I'm wrong). However, If you run any other process that attempts to register those DLLs without elevation, then the keys get registered in the virtual store. I highly recommend you delete any entries in your virtual store that are related to your current installation because the virtualstore takes precedence over the real entries. For example, You register x.dll without enough privilege It gets registered to your virtualstore x.dll gets updated You register x.dll *with* privilege It get registered to your HKLM. When your app runs, it will reference your virtualstore and never touch HKLM. solution: delete the entry in your virtualstore and your HKLM will be referenced. That's what I found from my experience. So be aware that if anything gets installed without enough privilege, you have to go and clean up that mess. I've struggled without migration to Vista, and so that was one of the lessons I learned. Good luck. Roy -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Vista-registry-virtualization-tp15824051p15854551.html Sent from the wix-users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2008. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
