Two Copies of an application

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Hi Friedrich

One of my clients has two copies of the same app. running on the same PC in seperate folders for two different companies. How do I
ensure that both apps check for web updates, since the registry is updated by the first app. and the second app will then not see
that there is a later version.
Regards

Mike Loney

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Hi Mike,

*Very* good question. I think it's not possible at the moment, but I have
to give it some thoughts. Web Updates uses the Product GUID to find/update
the registry entries. In your case, the Product GUID of the first and
second app is the same, so only one app can see the update.

We are working on web update enhancements for the next builds and I'll see
what we can do here.

I'll keep you posted.

Thanks,
Friedrich

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Thanks Friedrich

Mike

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Mike,

In the meantime you can use a turn around which is to add to your exe at
launch time to go and check that lindersoftware reg key (you know the guid
value) and if the version is higher than the exe version then change the reg
value to old version (the exe one) and popu a message to tell the user to do
an upgrade....

Like this the first to upgrade will change the reg key and the second to
open will see it is outdated ....

French are known for their crooked minds to 'turn' laws ... <G>

JP
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Thank you

Jean-Pierre GUTSATZ

Best Regards

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Or, you could have just one copy of the program and two shortcuts that have
the data folder as the "Start in" in the short cut.

French are not the only ones with twisted minds <g>.

Tony

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Thanks guys

Mike