NSIS System wide installation

hnmdijkema
13th January 2002 22:19 UTC

NSIS System wide installation
Is it possible to use NSIS to create an installer that will do a system wide installation under Windows 2000?

With system wide I mean: for ALL :D users.

Best whishes,

Hans Dijkema

Smile2Me
14th January 2002 07:38 UTC

Beste Hans,

try this:

ReadRegStr $R9 HKLM "SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Shell Folders" "Common Programs"
StrCmp $R9 "" 0 Continue
MessageBox MB_OK "No all-users startmenuprogramsdir"
Abort ; or anything else...
Continue:
MessageBox MB_OK "$R9 is the startmenuprogramsdir of all users."

Good luck, greetz, Hendri.

hnmdijkema
14th January 2002 09:23 UTC

Hey, will this also work on Win98 or something?

Smile2Me
14th January 2002 12:42 UTC

Hans,

on Win98, the registry check results in an empty string.

So check whether the string is empty and when it is, just use $SMPROGRAMS to install shortcuts to. Otherwise use $R9.

Greetz, Hendri.

hnmdijkema
14th January 2002 19:44 UTC

Thanks! So that's not as hard as I thought. Good thing. :) :up: