From: Tim Peters [mailto:tim.one@comcast.net]
[Bjorn Pettersen] [...]
item: Get Environment Variable Variable=OSDRIVE Environment=SystemDrive Default=C: end [...]
Enough already
: I don't have time to try umpteen different things here, or really even one.
Thank you for doing it anyway then <smile>.
What I did do is build an installer *just* removing the hard-coded Wizard-generated "C:" prefix. Martin tried that and said it worked for him. It doesn't hurt me. If it works for you too, I'll commit the change:
Works like a charm. Tested on Win98, Win2k, WinXP Pro (regular), and my "special" XP. (NT4 seems to have died a silent death, so I couldn't test it there...)
Please give that a try. It's an incoherent mix if files, so please use a junk name for the installation directory and program startup group (or simply abort the install after you see whether it suggested a drive you approve of).
I went all the way through (all files seems to have gone in correctly), and as expected it shadowed my original install of 2.3b1 in the Add/Remove Programs window. Surprisingly however, the original came back after this one was removed. Who'd have thought.. ;-) [.. xx.wse needs the Wise GUI to create an installer..] Thought it might be that way... FWIW, re: the MSVC7 debate, the "Microsoft Development Environment" (DevStudio), comes with five different "Setup and Deployment projects". I've never used any of them, nor Wise (obviously :-), but it could potentially get you out of the loop... <wink>. Thanks again! -- bjorn