Windows Installer 4.5 prerequite problems?

[Eug]

Dear Advanced Installer staff,

I've added all the Windows Installer 4.5 prerequites to my project and don't understand these points:

Supported Windows Versions seems to be wrong - for example in "Windows Installer 4.5 for Windows XP x86" all 64-bit versions are checked, as are 32-bit Windows 8 and 8.1 (which don't need Windows Installer 4.5)

All the prerequisites are checking the HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\CurrentBuildNumber key and I'm not sure why?

Your assistance would be much appreciated

Best Regards,
Eugene

[Daniel]

Hello Eugene,

Supported Windows Versions seems to be wrong - for example in "Windows Installer 4.5 for Windows XP x86" all 64-bit versions are checked, as are 32-bit Windows 8 and 8.1 (which don't need Windows Installer 4.5)

Indeed, this seems to be an Advanced Installer limitation. We will add an improvement regarding this in a future version of Advanced Installer, thank you for bringing this to our attention.

All the prerequisites are checking the HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\CurrentBuildNumber key and I'm not sure why?

This registry value is used to check the OS version of target machine.

All the best,
Daniel

[Eug]

Thanks Daniel. I'm wondering though why it's necessary to check the OS version via the registry lookup if it's already been checked by the "Windows Version" checkboxes above.

[Teodor]

Hi

I'm wondering though why it's necessary to check the OS version via the registry lookup if it's already been checked by the "Windows Version" checkboxes above.

Indeed, it is not necessary to check the OS version. Several fixes for Windows Installer prerequisites will be included in Advanced Installer version 11.1 (currently on development) that is planned to be released in the middle of April, 2014.

Best regards