[wix-users] "Program file" is replaced by "Program file (x86)"

[Farrukh Waheed]

And I just found this registry containing the same path:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Microsoft\Office\15.0\Common\InstallRoot



On 25 May 2016 at 17:04, Farrukh Waheed <farrukh1 at gmail.com> wrote:

> On x86 windows, it would be Program Files, while on x64, it would be
> Program Files (x86).
> I'm on 64bit Windows 10 and here is the registry on my windows for Word
>
> HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Microsoft\Office\15.0\Word\InstallRoot
> while registry key HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Office\Word\,
> doesn't contain InstallRoot.
>
> I'm not sure if there is any x64 version of Office (Yeah, I'm not its big
> fan :p ) , you can define two searches for both locations.
>
>
>
>
>
> On 25 May 2016 at 16:52, Yandex Mail <it-proposition at yandex.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi
>>
>>
>>
>> WiX version: 3.10.3.2917
>>
>> Visual Studio version: 2015 Update 2
>>
>> .NET version: 3.5
>>
>>
>>
>> Our program is installed in Windows 10 x64 with MS Word 2013 x86.
>>
>> But the base configuration is Windows 8.1 x64 and MS Word 2013 x86. The
>> windows was updated to version 10.
>>
>> This fact is important because after that Word x86 has location
>> "C:\Program
>> Files\Microsoft Office\root\Office15\". We can see it in the registry:
>>
>> msi-001
>>
>>
>>
>> Thus, our installer should detect that the user computer has the installed
>> Word 2013 x86.
>>
>> For this we used the standard scenario:
>>
>>
>>
>> <Property Id="HOSTPATH">
>>
>>   <RegistrySearch Id="RegSearch_HOSTEXE" Root="HKLM"
>> Key="SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Office\15.0\Word\InstallRoot" Name="Path"
>> Type="directory">
>>
>>     <FileSearch Name="WINWORD.EXE" />
>>
>>   </RegistrySearch>
>>
>> </Property>
>>
>> <Condition Message="!(loc.HostConditionMessage)"><![CDATA[Installed OR
>> HOSTPATH]]></Condition>
>>
>>
>>
>> And in result this condition does not pass.
>>
>> To found the problem I used procmon.exe and found that the installer looks
>> for WINWORD.EXE in another folder:
>>
>> msi-002
>>
>> The installer tries to find "C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft
>> Office\root\Office15\" but the registry contains "C:\Program
>> Files\Microsoft
>> Office\root\Office15\" value.
>>
>>
>>
>> In result the installer can not find WINWORD.EXE file and the condition
>> can
>> not pass.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> ----
>>
>> Thanks & Regards
>>
>> Leonid Maliutin
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
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