NSIS registry 'bug' on 2K/XP

After months, I finally found out what caused my installer not to create registry keys properly on Windows 2000 and XP (possibly NT4 too). Under Windows 95/98, the following will work:

WriteRegDword HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE "\Software\MyCompany\MyKey" "TheKey" 1234

However, under Windows 2000 and XP, this does not work!!!
But this does work properly:

WriteRegDword HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE "Software\MyCompany\MyKey" "TheKey" 1234

I would suggest making NSIS check if the registry path starts with a \ and then warns about it!

I had this bug in my installer from the beginning, but since it worked fine on W95/98/ME, I assumed there was nothing wrong with the line. But now I found the problem. 🙂

Maybe this will help someone else.

I updated 1.8b3 (on firehose.net/free/nsis) to warn of this. thanks. 🙂

-Justin

/me rolls out the red carpet and begins the fanfare.

good job Koen!

It's the least I can do eh? 😁