What Install Action Writes the Add Remove Programs Information...

Hi all,

Does RegisterProduct write the ARP stuff during the install?

I have a per user install where we want to tweak the version displayed in ARP from Windows Installer's #.#.# format to #.#.#.#. In our other installs that require Admin rights we have a little widget that tweaks, but since I have an install that must not require Admin rights, I can't tweak it (even though it appear to be written in an HKLM UserData area).

What I was trying to do is isolate the action that writes the ARP info, run a set property custom action to set the ProductVersion to the #.#.#.# format, then restore it to its #.#.# value after the action writes it to ARP.

Is that possible or does it have potentially harmful issues. We see no ill effects in our other Admin rights install as we are only tweaking a specific registry value. However, I don't know if changing the value, then running an install action that uses it will have more widespread effects.

Anyway, just wondering what action writes ARP display stuff and I can play around that.

Thanks for any info!