ARP registry - quotes or no quotes

MSG · 2nd May 2011, 05:55

This has bothered me for some time now. In the wiki: http://nsis.sourceforge.net/Add_unin...emove_Programs
Some guy says that "you should always quote the path to make sure spaces in the path will not disrupt Windows to find the uninstaller." So the wiki example ends up with this:
WriteRegStr HKLM "Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall\ImageMaker" "UninstallString" "$\"$INSTDIR\uninstall.exe$\""

As far as I can judge this is just plain wrong. I never quote the path, and it works just fine. Is there some legacy reason why one would add quotes to the regstring? Because if not, I'm going to delete this erroneous info from the wiki.

2nd May 2011, 05:55	#1
MSG Major Dude Join Date: Oct 2006 Posts: 1,892	ARP registry - quotes or no quotes This has bothered me for some time now. In the wiki: http://nsis.sourceforge.net/Add_unin...emove_Programs Some guy says that "you should always quote the path to make sure spaces in the path will not disrupt Windows to find the uninstaller." So the wiki example ends up with this: WriteRegStr HKLM "Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall\ImageMaker" "UninstallString" "$\"$INSTDIR\uninstall.exe$\"" As far as I can judge this is just plain wrong. I never quote the path, and it works just fine. Is there some legacy reason why one would add quotes to the regstring? Because if not, I'm going to delete this erroneous info from the wiki.

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