Need to change manufacturer but retain settings in updater

[nafujbeck]

Hello,
I need to change the manufacturer for my software product. However, I would like to retrieve the settings from the previous installation when using the updater.exe service. If I simply change the manufacturer, the auto-updater does not find the settings from the previous installation, I assume because it is looking in the registry for the new manufacturer and not finding the settings.

I do have the settings flagged as "persistent" properties. How can I look up those settings during the auto-update process while changing manufacturers?

Thanks for your help!
Nathan

[nafujbeck]

Hi all,
I figured out a solution for this. I created a search to locate the registry entry in the old manufacturer and store that in a property (i.e. ORIG_SOME_PROPERTY). Then, I created a custom action for each property with a condition that, if ORIG_SOME_PROPERTY <> "", then set SOME_PROPERTY = ORIG_SOME_PROPERTY. This worked for my use case. Hope it helps someone else.

Nathan

[Daniel]

Thank you for your follow up on this Nathan.

I am sure this will be useful for other users too.

All the best,
Daniel