Symantec WINDOWS INSTALLER EDITOR 7.0 SP2 - REFERENCE FOR WISE INSTALLATION STUDIO V1.0 Installation Manual page 42

Windows Installer Editor Reference
To set options:
Select Tools menu > Options and click the Advertising tab. (In Visual Studio: Tools menu
> Options > Wise Options > Advertising.) Complete the tab.
Advertising Setting
Select one of the "scan" options to have Windows Installer Editor inspect your
computer's registry and the files in the installation and automatically add Windows
Installer advertising information for the files that you add to the installation.
The different scan options let you determine whether the advertising information is
added to the advertising tables (AppId, Class, Extension, Mime, ProgId, TypeLib,
Verb), to the registry, or both. The scan options also cause AppPath registry
information to be added to the installation automatically, although it is not related to
advertising. Only AppPath information at
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\App Paths\ is
added.
This registration method is preferred over self-registration because it does not
depend on the presence of other files on the destination computer, nor does it
depend on how well the .OCX or .DLL file adheres to self-registration conventions.
However, the .OCX or .DLL files must already be registered correctly on your
computer. If you prefer not to register installation files on your computer, you can
run the scan routine as a stand-alone utility on a different computer.
See Using WiseComCapture.exe
Do not scan advertising information
Use self-registration for components that support it. Windows Installer Editor
will not scan files or the registry.
Scan advertising information into registry keys
Add advertising information to the installation as registry keys only; do not
create entries in advertising tables. This results in an installation that does not
support advertising through COM.
Scan advertising information into advertising tables
Place registry entries that are considered to be advertising information into
advertising tables. Create registry entries for any information that cannot be
placed in the advertising tables. This results in an installation that supports
advertising.
Scan advertising into both advertising tables and registry
Place registry entries that are considered to be advertising information into
advertising tables and into registry keys. As a result, all advertising information
is included in the installation; none is lost.
Warning
When registry entries are created for any information that cannot be placed in the
advertising tables, the installation is more accurate because no information is lost.
However, this might cause an error or warning when you run the Application
Specification Logo test in Package Validation.
Automatically add self-registration
Mark this to add self-registration information to the installation whenever you add
an .OCX or .DLL file that supports self-registration. Typically, .OCX and .DLL files are
self-registered dynamically on the destination computer by calling self-registration
functions. If you mark this check box, Windows Installer registers your .OCX and
on page 156.
Setting Up
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