The installer installs files and updates the Windows registry.
The installer:
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Installs InfoMaker files in an Appeon directory
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Installs writable Appeon files to directories that are shared by all users
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Installs system files in the Windows operating system path
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Creates a program group and icons for InfoMaker
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Creates uninstall files to identify what needs to be removed if you uninstall InfoMaker
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Makes changes to the Windows registry
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Creates or updates the INI file IM.INI (for InfoMaker)
As part of its Federal Desktop Core Configuration (FDCC) compliance configuration, InfoMaker installs writable files that are shared by all users. On Windows 10/11, it is C:\Users\Public\Documents\Appeon\InfoMaker 22.0.
The shared files include:
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InfoMaker product readme file
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The object templates (imstyletradition.pbl and imstylecontemp.pbl)
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The tutorial directory and files
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The InfoMaker compiled HTML Help files
Other writable files are installed in the default Program Files\Appeon subdirectories, but are copied to different locations the first time a user starts InfoMaker. In this way, each user gets a private copy of these files.
The following table lists the files that are copied and
updated in the directories of users. In the table header,
UserName is a variable that can be replaced by
the user name of a InfoMaker user. For Windows 10, the
UserName directory is under the
C:\Users directory.
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Files copied or updated |
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On Windows 10/11:
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The locations of writable InfoMaker files reserved for individual use are set in HKEY_CURRENT_USER registry entries for each InfoMaker user. For example, the location of the IM.INI file that is copied to each user's local application data directory is registered under the registry key HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Sybase\InfoMaker\22.0\InitPath.
The installer makes the following changes to the Windows registry:
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Creates or updates the key in HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software and HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software
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Updates system and user paths in HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Environment
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Adds the appropriate paths to the registry path HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\App Paths
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Adds the paths of compiled HTMLHelp files to the registry path HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\HTMLHelp
