A bad way to check if a program has been installed for all users …
August 27th, 2007I’m a fan of real-time strategy games.
I recently got into Age of Empires III and picked up the expansion, “The War Chiefs”, today. To my dismay, it wouldn’t install, instead giving a “Age of Empires III was not installed for AllUsers or the current user. Please log in with the correct account” error message.
Now, I know I did install it for all users, and nevertheless that I was using my own account. I wondered if I could install the files manually but the main CAB file was a mess of undecipherable files.
I considered uninstalling AoE III and reinstalling, which would have been a pain, and which wouldn’t necessarily have solved the problem anyway. A quick Google revealed this topic which revealed the installer is looking for the start menu group “Microsoft Games\Age of Empires III”. So, for anyone – like me – who moves their games into a specific “Games” start menu group (and the same with apps, etc.) the AoE expansion would never ever install.
That has to be a crummy means of checking for how a program is installed if ever I saw one …