hypheni9
24th August 2011 14:46 UTC

Custom EstimatedSize
I tried several method to apply EstimatedSize by Installer, finally I put 'InstallLocation' value to Uninstall Registry Key ie: 'HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall\(My Product)' to show size in Add-Remove Programs.

Now my problem is I install binary in %ProgramFiles% which is in 'InstallLocation' but I also install some data files under %UserProfile%\Application Data\ which is not pointed by 'InstallLocation' so only the size of %ProgramFiles%\My app is showing in Add-Remove.

Any ways to merge this two ?. I tried with EstimatedSize with a custom value but that never worked.

Anders
24th August 2011 21:35 UTC

HKLM is shared by all users, %UserProfile% is user specific, there is no way for the control panel applet to calculate the combined size of all users with some data in their profile.

hypheni9
25th August 2011 08:36 UTC

Sorry my Data path is All User. So is there is solution now ?..

C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\My App

Anders
25th August 2011 22:43 UTC

EstimatedSize is the only option on Win7: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/cjacks/archi...windows-7.aspx

For other systems you can set EstimatedSize but since it will probably not work ( http://blogs.msdn.com/b/oldnewthing/...93.aspx#641239 ) you can force it by hacking SlowInfoCache (There have been threads about this on the forum IIRC)

Another ugly ugly hacky hacky solution is to create a junction from inside your program files folder to your appdata folder so InstallLocation will look at both (NTFS only and junctions seem to confuse users etc)