I dont know if this is applicable to your problem but if you just need a directory for your application to generate temporary files in or to do other work, you could create your own working directory under [CommonAppDataFolder]<CompanyName>\<ApplicationName>.
You control the location and you can set whatever permissions you like on it without interfering with anyone else. The inherited permissions mean that a standard user cannot write to this directory by default so you might need to add permission for Everyone (or some other user group) to write there. You can use RemoveFiles\RemoveFolder elements to clean it up during uninstallation. -----Original Message----- From: Igor Paniushkin [mailto:ipaniush...@sdl.com] Sent: 02 July 2009 12:46 To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. Subject: Re: [WiX-users] How to reference a system environment variable? It was already mentioned in the beginning of this conversation, that TempFolder points to temp folder of current user, which performs installation, but I need system temp folder. -----Original Message----- From: Weber Stefan (IT) [mailto:s.we...@noerr.com] Sent: Thursday, July 02, 2009 12:51 To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. Subject: Re: [WiX-users] How to reference a system environment variable? i´ve never used it, but there is a standard Property "TempFolder" you could use, instead of searching the registry. <Directory Id="TARGETDIR" Name="SourceDir"> <Directory Id="TempFolder"> <Component ...... </Component> </Directory> </Directory> Stefan -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht----- Von: Igor Paniushkin [mailto:ipaniush...@sdl.com] Gesendet: Mittwoch, 1. Juli 2009 17:01 An: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. Betreff: Re: [WiX-users] How to reference a system environment variable? I already figured out, I need to specify Directory element and not DirectoryRef element, which I tried before. If somebody interested, there is code to do that: <Property Id="SYSTEM_TEMP_FOLDER"> <RegistrySearch Id="SystemTempFolder" Key="SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Session Manager\Environment" Root="HKLM" Type="directory" Name="TEMP" /> </Property> <Directory Id="TARGETDIR" Name="SourceDir"> <Directory Id="SYSTEM_TEMP_FOLDER"> <Component Id="SystemTempFolder" KeyPath="yes" Permanent="yes" Guid="*"> <CreateFolder> <PermissionEx User="NameOfUser" GenericRead="yes" GenericWrite="yes" xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/wix/UtilExtension"; /> </CreateFolder> </Component> </Directory> ... Igor -----Original Message----- From: Igor Paniushkin [mailto:ipaniush...@sdl.com] Sent: Wednesday, July 01, 2009 16:39 To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [WiX-users] How to reference a system environment variable? Hi all, I have a question about setting permissions on SYSTEM temp environment directory: If I will read information from registry about location of SYSTEM TEMP, how can I use it to set permissions? Should I write custom actions to do that? Can I reuse PermissionEx element from Util extensions? Igor -----Original Message----- From: Rob Hamflett [mailto:r...@snsys.com] Sent: Thursday, February 05, 2009 03:01 To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [WiX-users] How to reference a system environment variable? As horrible as it may be, I've been reading system environment values out of SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Session Manager\Environment for about 4 years now and there haven't been any support issues (both XP and Vista). I don't use this for setting values though. I use the normal Environment WiX element. Rob Yan Sklyarenko wrote: > He-he, nope, this references the local TEMP as well, I've tried this. > I've also browsed the forums for this info, and the best approach I've > found so far is to search the system registry for the key > HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Session Manager\Environment, and > the value TEMP underneath. > > This works for me, but maybe others know about the drawbacks of this > approach? I would really like to know if there's any. > > Thank you. > > -- Yan > > -----Original Message----- > From: Wilson, Phil [mailto:phil.wil...@wonderware.com] > Sent: Wednesday, February 04, 2009 10:29 PM > To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. > Subject: Re: [WiX-users] How to reference a system environment variable? > > The MSI way to get this would be [%TEMP] (formatted type in Windows > Installer) so you just need to get that in your WiX source somewhere. > > Phil Wilson > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Yan Sklyarenko [mailto:y...@sitecore.net] > Sent: Wednesday, February 04, 2009 8:07 AM > To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. > Subject: [WiX-users] How to reference a system environment variable? > > Hello WiX community, > > That's a really newbie question. > > I need to set permissions to the TEMP folder, the one stated in the > system TEMP environment variable. > I was trying this way: > > <!-- Setting permissions to the environment Temp folder --> > <DirectoryRef Id="TempFolder"> > <Component DiskId="1" Id="TempComp" > Guid="{YOURGUID-GOES-HERE-B106-B9D9705E01D7}" Permanent="yes"> > <CreateFolder> > <util:PermissionEx ... /> > </CreateFolder> > </Component> > </DirectoryRef> > > But this way it references the user-specific TEMP variable, the one > under Documents & Settings. > > Could you please point me to the right direction? > Thanks. > > -- Yan > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > ------ > Create and Deploy Rich Internet Apps outside the browser with > Adobe(R)AIR(TM) > software. 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