Difference Between ALLUSERS=1 and Active Setup
Don't these two things perform the same function? ALLUSERS=1 forces the application to install across all profiles, correct? Active Setup compares HKLM and HKCU and if they're different, copies over any file(s) and executes under each profile. The reason I ask is there have been packages where I have had to use both in order for everything to populate on all profiles.
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Posted by:
AngelD
17 years ago
Setting ALLUSERS to 1 will perform an per-machine installation.
These means shortcuts will be installed to the All Users folder instead of each users profile.
Any HKCR registry entry will be written under HKLM\SOFTWARE\Classes instead of HKCU\Software\Classes.
Any file association will also go into the HKCU hive.
If you don't have any entrypoint (such as shortcut, file association, COM Component...) to trigger the self-healing files located in the user profile and registry located in HKCU will not be repaired. Therefore we use Active Setup to help on adding those files/registry to the each user logging in to the client.
These means shortcuts will be installed to the All Users folder instead of each users profile.
Any HKCR registry entry will be written under HKLM\SOFTWARE\Classes instead of HKCU\Software\Classes.
Any file association will also go into the HKCU hive.
If you don't have any entrypoint (such as shortcut, file association, COM Component...) to trigger the self-healing files located in the user profile and registry located in HKCU will not be repaired. Therefore we use Active Setup to help on adding those files/registry to the each user logging in to the client.
Posted by:
jmcfadyen
17 years ago
the most common reason an MSI will not do this is that people forget to set an HKCU entry in the component containing the profile items.
active setup is not required as AngelId mentioned if you have entry points in your msi.
active setup is not required as AngelId mentioned if you have entry points in your msi.
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