Wednesday, October 13, 2010

Wise Captures on 64 bit Windows

When capturing application installations on 64 bit Windows, check if wise is creating the correct key AND the one it saw being created under Wow6432Node.  IMO the ones under Wow6432Node should be deleted.  On a 64 bit system regkey writes will be correctly redirected to Wow6432Node at install time.  On a 32 bit system they will be correctly installed.  Leaving the Wow6432Node keys in the capture and MSI install may result in them being installed twice on a 64 bit system.  On a 32 bit system unwanted  Wow6432node keys would be created.