hiigara
6th August 2012 19:51 UTC

Does NSIS define $LOCALAPPDATA when running on XP?
XP does not have the LOCALAPPDATA environment variable.

When running on XP I want to install in:
%USERPROFILE%\Local Settings\Application Data

When running on windows 7 and vista I want:
%USERPROFILE%\AppData\Local

Will
InstallDir "$LOCALAPPDATA\${app_name}"

use %USERPROFILE%\Local Settings\Application Data\${app_name} on Windows XP?

(Obviously I don't have access to an XP machine at the moment to test this)

Thanks

Afrow UK
6th August 2012 20:06 UTC

$LOCALAPPDATA is what you want for XP and for Vista/7 ($LOCALAPPDATA was added in 2005).

Stu

Anders
6th August 2012 23:45 UTC

It is documented as Win2000+ (I don't remember if you can make it work with shfolder.dll on Win9x...)