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Moving Items Between Components
Windows Installer Editor Reference
Extract advertising information from registry file
Mark this to take information from the .REG file and places it into the
advertising tables instead of the registry tables if possible.
3.
Click OK on the Component Details dialog box.
If the installation has only one feature, the component is added to that feature. If
the installation has more than one feature, the Select Feature(s) to Assign
Component to dialog box appears.
4.
Mark one or more check boxes for the features to assign the new component to and
click OK.
The component appears in the upper-right pane.
See also:
Components Tab
on page 366
Warning
To work with items on the Components tab, you should be proficient in the Windows
Installer development environment. See Windows Installer Components in the Windows
Installer SDK Help.
On the Components tab, you can move items from one component to another. The
procedure below works for all types of items, and also warns you when a key path must
be changed. For files and registry entries, you can drag between components, but you
are not warned if a key path is changed.
To move items between components
1.
In Setup Editor > Components tab, navigate to an item so that it appears in the
upper-right pane.
2.
In the upper-right pane, select one or more items, right-click, and select Move.
Note
If an item you select is the component's key path, a message informs you that the
item will become the destination component's key path, even if that component
already has a key path. To reset the destination component's key path, click Yes. To
cancel the move, click No. You can reset key paths manually by right-clicking an
item and selecting Set as Key.
The Move to a Different Component dialog box appears.
3.
Click the component to move the selected item to.
4.
Click OK.
If the component icon is colored red after you move an item to it, the change you made
causes an error. Right-click the component and select Show Errors to see a description
of the problem.
See also:
Components Tab
on page 366
Setup Editor
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