Hello Rick !

Please set up Your HelpBuilder-installer to remember the directory the previous version is installed in. Nearly all installers check if an old version is installed and suggest to install the update in this directory. I never install HelpBuilder in Your suggested directory.

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Hans-Peter

Done for next version update in Inno Setup. Thanks for the reminder.

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Hello Rick !

Done for next version update in Inno Setup. Thanks for the reminder.

I tried in v. 5.8.1. The installer doesn´t remind the directory the previous version is installed in.

C:\Program Files (x86)\West Wind Html Help Builder was suggested.

In registry the path of the previous version is

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\WOW6432Node\CLSID\{180E0805-C3DE-11D2-B84F-00600889F23B}\LocalServer32]

@="c:\\program files (x86)\\prgtools\\htmlhelpbuilder\\wwhelp.exe /automation"

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Hans-Peter Grözinger

You need to uninstall then reinstall as it remembers that last install location.

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Hello Rick !

OK, i will try Your suggested procedure the next time. Although this process will be more time-consuming than changing the path every time to my favorite path 😦

Nevertheless, nearly all installer of other software-packs, remember the previous installation path without a seperate deinstall process.

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Hans-Peter Grözinger

Yeah - I made that change and it's working for me here. I think the problem is if you have a previous install when you do this the first time it can't pick up the previous install location because it wasn't saved. Hence you uninstall, reinstall this time - next time it should remember the path.

The flag is set in Inno so this should definitely work going forward and it does for me here locally when installed into a custom folder.

Then again - why would you install an application into a different folder? You're potentially setting yourself up for a security issue if you don't install into a locked down folder like Program Files.

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Hello Rick !

Then again - why would you install an application into a different folder?

I hate unnecessary long names with spaces in a directory name.

You're potentially setting yourself up for a security issue if you don't install into a locked down folder like Program Files.

I like to install all tools in a clean way into seperate directories "under" Program Files.

HelpBuilder into c:\program files (x86)\prgtools\htmlhelpbuilder

Other system-tools into c:\program files (x86)\system\

Graphic-tools into c:\program files (x86)\grafik\

and so on ...

PS: I like Your tools HelpBuilder and WWClient-Tools.

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Hans-Peter Grözinger