[wix-users] Uppercase Registry Key

[David Watson]

The registry on windows is like the file system and is not case sensitive.

Look at the log to see what it says it is doing with that component.




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-----Original Message-----
From: wix-users [mailto:wix-users-bounces at lists.wixtoolset.org] On Behalf Of Walter Dexter
Sent: 16 March 2017 01:51
To: WiX Toolset Users Mailing List <wix-users at lists.wixtoolset.org>
Subject: Re: [wix-users] Uppercase Registry Key

I don't know for sure but I'd be more suspicious of it being a 32-bit installer, 64-bit OS, and maybe a .Net application. That stuff gets weird fast.

> On Mar 15, 2017, at 7:18 PM, Scott Ferguson <Scott.Ferguson at a2ktechnologies.co.nz> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I have a user whose 'Software' registry key is all uppercase, i.e. HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE. This is a windows 10 OS. I have not seen the key in all caps before.
>
> The reason I am writing is my installer didn't install the registry keys and I am wondering if the case matters?
>
> Is the value of the Key attribute case sensitive when installing registry keys?
>
> Here is a snippet of my registryValue node and notice in the Key attribute the value has 'Software' in camel case not all caps like I found in the user's computer i.e. SOFTWARE.
>
>
>        <RegistryValue Root="HKCU" Key="Software\[MANUFACTURER]\[PRODUCTNAME]" Name="InstallFolder"
>                       Value="[INSTALLFOLDER]" Type="string" KeyPath="yes" />
>
> Regards,
>
> Scott Ferguson
>
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