What is the use of arrow in active setup?
for e.g. HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Active Setup\Installed Components\>{22d6f312-b0f6-11d0-94ab-0080c74c7e95}
before {22d6f312-b0f6-11d0-94ab-0080c74c7e95} there is an arrow.
does it mean that, this activesetup will run after all non arrow active setups?
I created 2 activesetups, for testing, and observed that, activesetup with arrow runs later.
Please guide.
Answers (2)
Active Setups will run in the order they are found in the registry. Since the arrow has a value 'greater than' the { character they will run after.
Since there's no limitation to what you can name the key in ActiveSetup\Installed Components (except they have to be unique), you could just as easily make a zzz_ key or so (letters compute as greater than both { and >)
The name of the application shouldn't impact how it runs. Additionally, running faster is kind of a nebulous concept. Were all the same services running and consuming exactly the same amount of system resources? What was the time differential? How was it measured? Were updates performed in between tests? There's a lot of variables to consider so "running faster" is a challenge to define.
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I don't think MadForMsi said "running faster", they said said running later, i.e. one event happing after (or later) than another. - olditguy 12 years ago
