congahonga
9th February 2009 09:04 UTC

Strange behaviour with Windows 64-Bit and registry keys
Hi there,

I have got a STRANGE Problem !

I want to write this registry key with following command:

WriteRegStr HKLM "SOFTWARE\IKE\KFUE\Watchdog" "ConfigFile" "$INSTDIR\app\Watchdog\config\Watchdog.cfg"

But NSIS writes this key under,

"SOFTWARE\WOW6432Node\IKE\KFUE\.....

Yes, I know already where the problem could be derived from.

I write an 64 Bit-Installer for a software, that is now available under Windows 2003 Server 64 BIT !

So, "SOFTWARE\WOW6432Node\....." is a place where 32-Bit Keys are placed.

I am astonished, that NSIS writes this automatically to ...WOW6432Node....

I told NSIS to write the key like above !!!
And it adds automatically ...WOW6432Node so that the key finally is writen to

"SOFTWARE\WOW6432Node\IKE\KFUE\Watchdog"

How can I prevent this !

Greetings
Jochen Graulberger from BLACK-FORREST

MSG
9th February 2009 13:31 UTC

The registry keys are written to WOW64 because the application writing it, the NSIS installer, is 32 bits. Use SetRegView to force it to write to 64 bits registry.

http://nsis.sourceforge.net/Docs/Chapter4.html#4.9.7.6

congahonga
10th February 2009 08:30 UTC

Thank YOU !
This is exactly what I need !

Greetings from BLACK-Forrest, where the forrest is more black than a black hole :-)

kichik
11th February 2009 01:16 UTC

I was actually at the Schwartz Wald and it wasn't that black. I recall it was very much green and crawling with huge shell-less snails. But I was very young, so my memory might be off :)