jbang
8th March 2004 19:40 UTC

$APPDATA and Danish NT 4.0
Hi,

Running the following script as Administrator under a Danish NT 4.0 with IE 6

OutFile "Setup.exe"
Section
SetShellVarContext current
MessageBox MB_OK $APPDATA
SetShellVarContext all
MessageBox MB_OK $APPDATA
SectionEnd

gives me two times
C:\WINNT\Profiles\Administrator\Programdata
and not
C:\WINNT\Profiles\Administrator\Programdata
and
C:\WINNT\Profiles\All Users\Programdata

Under XP the program works as expected.

Under NT the registry key
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Shell Folders\Common AppData contains C:\WINNT\Profiles\All Users\Programdata
so I can use this as a workaround but I would rather prefer not to.

Is this a known bug/feature?

Best regards,
Jørgen

kichik
11th March 2004 19:37 UTC

NSIS simply passes along what the system gives it. That specific system might not support all users folder for the application data. You might not have Internet Explorer 5 installed.

The application data directory. Detection of the current user path requires Internet Explorer 4 and above. Detection of the all users path requires Internet Explorer 5 and above. The context of this constant (All Users or Current user) depends on the SetShellVarContext setting. The default is the current user.