SetupCapture and Windows x64

Normally, it helps us to know which product you are using when you ask a specific question, but since capture is involved, I will assume you have a version of Wise Package Studio.

Currently, none of the Wise Package Studio releases have a capture tool capable of performing a 64 bit capture. As you have already observed, the existing capture tool is a 32 bit application and thus blocked by Windows from having access to the 64 bit registry.

To my knowledge, there are no freely available capture tools that are written for the 64 bit environment, unless the latest releases of products such as InstallShield or InstallAware have finally introduced such a tool.

I suspect that the delay in creating such tools is due to current (non MSI) installers being unable to write to the 64 bit registry. Therefore any installers for 64 bit applications are most likely already written as MSI files and there is no need to capture them.

EdT,

We are currently using Wise Package Studio 7 SP3, afaik the latest version available.

Ive already looked at the Acresso Product Lineup but correct me if i'm wrong:
InstallShield 2010 does not provide a repackaging utility and AdminStudio 9 is still based on InstallShield 2009 which doesnt support x64.

I think, in fact, that if you have IS 2010 installed and select 'InstallShield integration' when installing AS, it uses whatever's present. Don't quote me, though.

That product lineup sounds pretty much as I expected - the Installshield 2010 product is roughly equivalent to Wise Installation Studio - both are intended for software developers to package their creations, and not for software repackagers who need capture tools.
For repackagers, AdminStudio 9 remains the equivalent of Wise Package Studio - both have capture tools but no support for x64

Whether there are any free capture tools that have been rewritten for 64 bit operation is something I have not been able to track down so far.
If you are just interested in registry differences, one rather clunky way to get at this information is to use regedit to export the registry hive in question as a text file, install the software, re-export the hive as a text file, then use WinDiff to find the differences between the two text files.

Edt,

Ive already found a tool which allows exlusionslists & registry export:

Regshot Unicode X64.

Very nice snapshot tool.

I'm sure I'm not the only person interested in a 64 bit snapshot tool, but googling on the name throws up lots of different versions and comments about many not working, so a link to your working version would be most helpful.

Here you are:

http://regshot.ru/20/

Now all I need is a little Russian.....

Its the submit button in the bottom left ;-)

The application itself has a MUL Interface.

I've just successfully repackaged a x64 application, but it took me about a day to manually assign all registry/registration keys to the corresponding component. (Glad im using keyboard macros ;-))

...but I avoid downloading anything from a domain ending '.ru' (amongst others) unless I get a personal recommendation from a trusted source.

Definitely needs to be installed on a VM first, then checked for rootkits and virus payloads.

i'm using it for a couple of months now and i never had any virus/trojan problems.

regards
Tino

...you can guarantee that it isn't "phoning home" with who knows what information? I'm sure it's fine, it's just my paranoia :)