I’ve written before about the usefulness of ActiveSetup, but today am here to warn you about a pitfall of using ActiveSetup.
When working with roaming profiles, depending on how your environment is configured, the HKCU registry hive will also roam with users. This is fine if your active setup action is a profile related thing (perhaps [...]
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ActiveSetup – your nemesis?
Posted in Vista, Windows 7, XP, tagged ActiveSetup on August 26, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Active Setup – your friend!
Posted in Packaging, Vista, Work, XP, tagged ActiveSetup, logon, registry, startup, windows on July 23, 2008 | Comments Off
Active Setup is a useful tool to install per-user files and registry settings when you don’t have anything else on the computer to act as an entry point. How it works is fairly simple:
Create a registry key in HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Active Setup\Installed Components – call it MyApp. It will be easier to distinguish if you use a [...]
