Migrating from InstallShield

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I have an install that was created using InstallShield a few years ago
and has not been changed since then.

I need to now upgrade and and migrate it to SetupBuilder.

From my memory it seems that the default behaviour of IS is to capture
the users choice of install location and post that into the registry,
and future installs/updates of the same product go to that same
directory. SetupBuilder does not do that, from what I can see.

I want to be able to grab the InstallShield registry location of the
origiinal install and use that to copy old datea files to a new
install location, and then remember that new install directory for
updates.

Does anyone know how/where InstallShield saves the install directory
value?

Bob R

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Bob,

The standard is to store it in the "InstallLocation" value name for the
product under the
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\Curr entVersion\Uninstall
registry key.

In theory and with some luck, it should be possible to use the "Detect
Previous Version..." function to read the install location. If not, you can
use it directly from the registry.

Friedrich