| Property name |
Brief description of property |
| ACTION |
Initial action called after the installer is initialized. |
| ALLUSERS |
Determines where configuration information will be stored. |
| ARPAUTHORIZEDCDFPREFIX |
URL of the update channel for the application. |
| ARPCOMMENTS |
Provides Comments for the Add/Remove Control Panel. |
| ARPCONTACT |
Provides Contact for the Add/Remove Control Panel. |
| ARPINSTALLLOCATION |
Fully qualified path to the application's primary folder. |
| ARPNOREPAIR |
Disables the Repair button in the Programs Wizard. |
| ARPPRODUCTICON |
Specifies the primary icon for the installation package. |
| ARPREADME |
Provides ReadMe for the Add/Remove Control Panel. |
| ARPSIZE |
Estimated size of the application in kilobytes. |
| ARPSYSTEMCOMPONENT |
Prevents display of application in Add/Remove programs list. |
| ARPURLINFOABOUT |
URL for application's home page. |
| ARPURLUPDATEINFO |
URL for application update information. |
| ARPNOMODIFY |
Disables functionality that would modify the product. |
| ARPNOREMOVE |
Disables functionality that would remove the product. |
| AVAILABLEFREEREG |
Registry space in KB required by the application. Used by AllocateRegistrySpace action. |
| CCP_DRIVE |
The root path for any of the qualifying products for CCP. |
| DISABLEADVTSHORTCUTS |
Set to disable the generation certain shortcuts supporting installation-on-demand. |
| DISABLEMEDIA |
Prevents the installer from registering media sources, such as a CD-ROMs, as valid sources for the product. |
| DISABLEROLLBACK |
Disables rollback for the current configuration. |
| EXECUTEACTION |
Top-level action initiated by the ExecuteAction action. |
| EXECUTEMODE |
Mode of execution performed by the installer. |
| INSTALLLEVEL |
Initial "level" at which features will be installed. |
| LOGACTION |
List of action names that will be logged. |
| Privileged |
Runs an installation with elevated privileges. |
| PROMPTROLLBACKCOST |
Action if there is insufficient disk space for the installation. |
| PRIMARYFOLDER |
Allows the author to designate a ""primary"" folder for the installation. Used to determine the values for the PrimaryVolumePath, PrimaryVolumeSpaceAvailable, PrimaryVolumeSpaceRequired, and PrimaryVolumeSpaceRemaining properties. |
| REBOOT |
Force or suppress rebooting. |
| REBOOTPROMPT |
Suppresses the display of prompts for reboots to the user. Any reboots that are needed happen automatically. |
| ROOTDRIVE |
Default drive for the install. |
| SEQUENCE |
A table having the sequence table schema. |
| SHORTFILENAMES |
Causes short file names to be used. |
| TRANSFORMS |
List of transforms to be applied to the database. |
| TRANSFORMSATSOURCE |
Informs the installer that the transforms for the product reside at the source. |
| TRANSFORMSSECURE |
Setting the TRANSFORMSECURE property to 1 informs the installer that transforms are to be cached locally on the user's computer in a location where the user does not have write access. |
| LIMITUI |
UI level capped as Basic. |
| DefaultUIFont |
Default font style used for controls. |
| Property name |
Brief description of property |
| ADDLOCAL |
List of features to be installed locally. |
| ADVERTISE |
List of features to be advertised. |
| ADDDEFAULT |
List of features to be installed in their default configuration. |
| ADDSOURCE |
List of features to be run from source. |
| REMOVE |
List of features to be removed. |
| REINSTALL |
List of features to be reinstalled. |
| REINSTALLMODE |
A string containing letters that specify the type of reinstall to perform. |
| COMPADDLOCAL |
List of component IDs to be installed locally. |
| COMPADDSOURCE |
List of component IDs to run from source media. |
| FILEADDDEFAULT |
List of file keys of files that are to be installed in their default configuration. |
| FILEADDLOCAL |
List of file keys of the files to be run locally. |
| FILEADDSOURCE |
List of file keys to be run from the source media. |
| PATCH |
Setting this property applies a patch. |
| Property name |
Brief description of property |
| Alpha |
Numeric processor level if running on an Alpha processor. |
| BorderSide |
The width, in pixels, of the window borders. |
| BorderTop |
The height, in pixels, of the window borders. |
| CaptionHeight |
Height, in pixels, of normal caption area. |
| ColorBits |
Number of adjacent color bits for each pixel. |
| Intel |
Numeric processor level if running on an Intel processor. |
| PhysicalMemory |
Size of the installed RAM in megabytes. |
| ScreenX |
Width, in pixels, of the screen. |
| ScreenY |
Height, in pixels, of the screen. |
| TextHeight |
The height of characters in logical units. |
| VirtualMemory |
Amount of available page file space in megabytes. |
| Property name |
Brief description of property |
| AFTERREBOOT |
Indicates current installation follows a reboot invoked by the ForceReboot action. |
| CostingComplete |
Indicates whether disk space costing has completed. |
| RollbackDisabled |
The installer sets this property whenever rollback is disabled. |
| Installed
|
Indicates that a product is already installed. |
| ProductLanguage |
Numeric language identifier (LANGID) for the database. (REQUIRED) |
| OutOfDiskSpace |
Insufficient disk space to accommodate the installation. |
| OutOfNoRbDiskSpace |
Insufficient disk space with rollback turned off. |
| Preselected |
Features are already selected. |
| PrimaryVolumePath |
The Installer sets the value of this property to the path of the volume designated by the PRIMARYFOLDER property. |
| PrimaryVolumeSpaceAvailable |
The Installer sets the value of this property to a string representing the total number of bytes available on the volume referenced by the PrimaryVolumePath property. |
| PrimaryVolumeSpaceRequired |
The Installer sets the value of this property to a string representing the total number of bytes required by all currently selected features on the volume referenced by the PrimaryVolumePath property. |
| PrimaryVolumeSpaceRemaining |
The Installer sets the value of this property to a string representing the total number of bytes remaining on the volume referenced by the PrimaryVolumePath property if all the currently selected features were installed. |
| RESUME |
Resumed installation. |
| UpdateStarted |
Set when changes to the system have begun for this install. |
| ReplacedInUseFiles |
Set if the installer installs over a file that is being held in use. |
| NOUSERNAME |
Suppresses the automatic setting of the USERNAME property. |
| NOCOMPANYNAME |
Suppresses the automatic setting of the USERNAME property. |
| UILevel |
Indicates the user interface level. |
| Property name |
Brief description of property |
| AdminUser |
Set on Microsoft® Windows NT®/Windows® 2000 if the user has administrator privileges. |
| ComputerName |
Computer name of the current system. |
| LogonUser |
User name for the user currently logged on. |
| OLEAdvtSupport |
Set if OLE supports the Microsoft Windows Installer. |
| RemoteAdminTS |
The installer sets the RemoteAdminTS property when the system is a remote administration server using Terminal Services. |
| ServicePackLevel |
The version number of the operating system service pack. |
| ServicePackLevelMinor |
The minor version number of the operating system service pack. |
| SharedWindows |
Set when the system is operating as Shared Windows. |
| ShellAdvtSupport |
Set if the shell supports feature advertising. |
| SystemLanguageID |
Default language identifier for the system. |
| TerminalServer |
Set when the system is a server with Windows Terminal Server. |
| TTCSupport |
Indicates if the operating system supports using .TTC (true type font collections) files. |
| Version9X |
Version number for the Windows operating system. |
| VersionDatabase |
Numeric database version of the current installation. |
| VersionNT |
Version number for the Windows NT/Windows 2000 operating system. |
| WindowsBuild |
Build number of the operating system. |
| Property name |
Brief description of property |
| ARPHELPLINK |
Internet address, or URL, for technical support. |
| ARPHELPTELEPHONE |
Technical support phone numbers. |
| ProductCode |
A unique identifier for the particular product release. (REQUIRED) |
| ProductName |
Human-readable name of the application.(REQUIRED) |
| ProductState |
Set to the installed state of a product. |
| ProductVersion |
String format of the product version as a numeric value. (REQUIRED) |
| Manufacturer |
Name of the application's manufacturer.(REQUIRED) |
| PIDTemplate |
String used as a template for the PIDKEY property. |
| DiskPrompt |
String displayed by a message box prompting for a disk. |
| LeftUnit |
Places units to the left of the number. |
| UpgradeCode |
A GUID representing a related set of products. |
| IsAdminPackage |
Set to 1 if the current installation is running from a package created through an administrative installation. |
| Property name |
Brief description of property |
| AdminToolsFolder |
Full path to directory containing administrative tools for an individual user. |
| AppDataFolder |
Full path to the Application Data folder for the current user. |
| CommonAppDataFolder |
Full path to Application data for all users. |
| CommonFilesFolder |
Full path to the Common Files folder for the current user. |
| DesktopFolder |
Full path to the Desktop folder. |
| FavoritesFolder |
Full path to the Favorites folder for the current user. |
| FontsFolder |
Full path to the Fonts folder. |
| LocalAppDataFolder |
Full path to directory that serves as a data repository for local (non-roaming) applications. |
| MyPicturesFolder |
Full path to the MyPicturesFolder. |
| PersonalFolder |
Full path to the Personal folder for the current user. |
| ProgramFilesFolder |
Full path to the Program Files folder. |
| ProgramMenuFolder |
Full path to the Program Menu folder. |
| SendToFolder |
Full path to the SendTo folder for the current user. |
| StartMenuFolder |
Full path to the Start menu folder. |
| StartupFolder |
Full path to the Startup folder. |
| System16Folder |
Full path to folder for 16-bit system DLLs. |
| SystemFolder |
Full path to the System folder. |
| TempFolder |
Full path to the Temp folder. |
| TemplateFolder |
Full path to the Template folder for the current user. |
| WindowsFolder |
Full path to the Windows folder. |
| WindowsVolume |
The volume of the Windows folder. |
