[wix-users] BurnBootstrapper is creating entries in WOW6432

Srinivas srinivasmsis at gmail.com
Fri Jan 19 15:46:46 PST 2018


All our installers are strictly 64Bit, we dont support 32 bit installers
and hence i wanted Burn also to be 64 bit and create all its registry
entries in 64bit only


On Fri, Jan 19, 2018 at 10:20 PM, Hoover, Jacob <Jacob.Hoover at greenheck.com>
wrote:

> Burn is a 32 bit process. There is no need to have burn be 64 bit, and it
> would lead to obtuse errors if someone downloaded your 64 bit installer and
> tried running it on a 32 bit machine.
>
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> Cc: Srinivas <srinivasmsis at gmail.com>
> Subject: [wix-users] BurnBootstrapper is creating entries in WOW6432
>
> Hi,
>
> When i installed the exe which was developed using Burn, all the items in
> the chain are getting installed as 64 bit, creating registry entries in 64
> Bit
>
> But the Burn EXE entry is getting created as 32 Bit in WOW6432Node
>
> How do i create that entry in 64 Bit Registry instead of WOW6432Node
>
>
> Thanks
> Srini
>
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