Wireshark · Wireshark-bugs: [Wireshark-bugs] [Bug 10867] Windows Wireshark Installer does not detect Winpcap which is already in

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Comment # 7 on bug 10867 from Christopher Maynard

(In reply to Christopher Maynard from comment #6)
> I also don't know how the Pascal's change could have caused this problem.
> 
> But when I look at wireshark.nsi, I see the following:
> 
>     ReadRegStr $WINPCAP_NAME HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE
> "SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall\WinPcapInst"
> "DisplayName"
> 
> However, this is only true for my old Windows XP 32-bit PC.  On my Windows 7
> 64-bit PC, it looks like it should be:
> 
>     ReadRegStr $WINPCAP_NAME HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE
> "SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall\WinPcapInst"
> "DisplayName"
> 
> So to me, it looks like this is the real problem.

And in fact it seems to work just fine in my testing.  I have never installed
Npcap, so perhaps we'll face the same problem with that too?

ReadRegStr $NPCAP_NAME HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE
"SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall\NpcapInst" "DisplayName"

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