Registry Isolation Options Dialog Box - Novell ADMINSTUDIO 9.5 User Manual

Chapter 10: Creating Customized Virtual Applications
Creating Microsoft App-V Applications
Table 10-21 • Steps to Automatically Determine Primary Application Directory
# Step
2 Value of INSTALLDIR
variable
3 Location of shortcut
in a subdirectory of
the
ProgramFilesFolder
4 Location of shortcut
in a directory other
than
ProgramFilesFolder
5 ProgramFilesFolder

Registry Isolation Options Dialog Box

You open the Registry Isolation Options dialog box by selecting a registry key on the Registry page and
clicking Isolation Options on the context menu. On the Registry Isolation Options dialog box, you can specify
whether the App-V application will see only the registry entries for the selected key that are part of that App-V
application, or will see a merged view of the registry entries for the selected key from both the local registry and
from the App-V application's registry.
840
Description
If the Windows Installer package has a value for
that specifies the root destination directory for an installation), that value will be
used as the primary application directory.
Note • This step is not used when converting Windows Installer packages that have been
repackaged using AdminStudio Repackager.
Note • All Windows Installer packages created by InstallShield or AdminStudio will have a
value for the INSTALLDIR variable.
If one of the targets for a shortcut is in a subdirectory of
.exe
, then the folder directly under
ProgramFilesFolder
be used as the primary application directory. Typically, this would be:
C:\Program Files\YourApplication
If no targets are located in a subdirectory of
.exe
the target directory of a shortcut that contains an
If none of the above can be found, then the primary application directory will be
set to
ProgramFilesFolder
C:\Program Files
INSTALLDIR
ProgramFilesFolder
.exe
. Typically, this would be:
ADS-0950-UG00
(a system variable
will
ProgramFilesFolder
, then
will be used.
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