- Introduction
- Registration
- Using Advanced Installer
- Features and Functionality
- Tutorials
- How-tos
- Application/Package
- Files and Folders
- Launch file after installation
- Replace a file using a transform
- Write text to a file
- Import and edit an XML file
- Install a user specific file
- Conditionally install a file or a registry
- Remove a file or a folder during installation
- Install in another application's folder
- Install files in a custom folder
- Deliver a file to all users profiles
- Install files with the same name
- Always install some resources in the "C:\Windows\System32"
- Always install some resources in the "C:\Program Files"
- Create shortcut only if a feature is installed
- Create an MSI with files outside
- Deploy files in the User Profile folder
- Installing a package on a USB drive
- Append data to existing REG_BINARY using Advanced Installer
- Deploy an Angular Application to IIS
- Preserve application settings using XML files
- Preserve application settings using registry values
- Preserve application settings using a custom action
- Services and Processes
- Custom Actions How Tos
- Secure Property
- Create a log
- Load installer property from configuration file
- Pass configuration file for prerequisite
- Implement software identification
- Restart the machine after the installation
- Make the package install per-user or per-machine
- RegistrySearch
- Add HKCU registry entries or per-user files for all users
- Create MSI wrapper over EXE installers
- MSI Package Silent Install - How do I create one?
- Installing multiple instances from the command line
- Single-click run my application from its installation package
- Install resources based on the OS version
- Configure server-side serial number validation
- Validate serial number during Wizard Dialogs Stage only
- Collect installation data and send it to a web server
- Implement self-healing into the application
- Installing Driver
- Installing drivers in mixed packages
- Sideload APPX using an MSI
- Deploying a Python script
- Deploy certificates required by Office 2010
- Installing Screen Saver
- Windows Restart Manager
- Create a chained installation
- Create an Access Database installer
- Create a web-based installation package.
- Install Add-in Express based Office add-ins
- Launch application at logon/startup
- How 32-bit setup packages behave on 64-bit machines
- Conditionally install a prerequisite based on the user selection
- Select multiple components in the Organization view
- Create updates with a repackaged application
- Set the Publisher ID for a UWP AppX
- Distribute Windows Updates among the installer
- Configure help setup package among the installer
- Localize a project segment
- How to have a property with different default value for each build
- Launch a certain application from an APPX package after install.
- Create AppInstaller file for MSIX packages.
- Instal and configure COMs.
- Azure Active Directory - registering Advanced Installer for Device Guard Signing.
- EV Code Signing in Advanced Installer
- Detect applications that keep files in use at install time.
- Add merge modules to your project.
- Build Microsoft Store distribution and sideloading distribution MSIX packages with a single build operation
- Import an MSIX built with Visual Studio
- Configuring Azure Code Signing or Digicert Keylocker
- Run powershell script to populate a CheckList
- Convert COM registration from MSI to MSIX.
- Files and Folders
- 32/64-bit
- User Interface
- Upgrade
- Uninstall/Maintenance
- ODBC/SQL
- IIS
- Java
- Licensing
- Advanced Analytics SDK
- Windows Mobile/CE
- Application/Package
- FAQs
- Windows Installer
- Deployment Technologies
- IT Pro
- MSIX
- Video Tutorials
- Advanced Installer Blog
- Table of Contents
- Introduction
- Registration
- Using Advanced Installer
- Features and Functionality
- Tutorials
- How-tos
- Application/Package
- Files and Folders
- Launch file after installation
- Replace a file using a transform
- Write text to a file
- Import and edit an XML file
- Install a user specific file
- Conditionally install a file or a registry
- Remove a file or a folder during installation
- Install in another application's folder
- Install files in a custom folder
- Deliver a file to all users profiles
- Install files with the same name
- Always install some resources in the "C:\Windows\System32"
- Always install some resources in the "C:\Program Files"
- Create shortcut only if a feature is installed
- Create an MSI with files outside
- Deploy files in the User Profile folder
- Installing a package on a USB drive
- Append data to existing REG_BINARY using Advanced Installer
- Deploy an Angular Application to IIS
- Preserve application settings using XML files
- Preserve application settings using registry values
- Preserve application settings using a custom action
- Services and Processes
- Custom Actions How Tos
- Secure Property
- Create a log
- Load installer property from configuration file
- Pass configuration file for prerequisite
- Implement software identification
- Restart the machine after the installation
- Make the package install per-user or per-machine
- RegistrySearch
- Add HKCU registry entries or per-user files for all users
- Create MSI wrapper over EXE installers
- MSI Package Silent Install - How do I create one?
- Installing multiple instances from the command line
- Single-click run my application from its installation package
- Install resources based on the OS version
- Configure server-side serial number validation
- Validate serial number during Wizard Dialogs Stage only
- Collect installation data and send it to a web server
- Implement self-healing into the application
- Installing Driver
- Installing drivers in mixed packages
- Sideload APPX using an MSI
- Deploying a Python script
- Deploy certificates required by Office 2010
- Installing Screen Saver
- Windows Restart Manager
- Create a chained installation
- Create an Access Database installer
- Create a web-based installation package.
- Install Add-in Express based Office add-ins
- Launch application at logon/startup
- How 32-bit setup packages behave on 64-bit machines
- Conditionally install a prerequisite based on the user selection
- Select multiple components in the Organization view
- Create updates with a repackaged application
- Set the Publisher ID for a UWP AppX
- Distribute Windows Updates among the installer
- Configure help setup package among the installer
- Localize a project segment
- How to have a property with different default value for each build
- Launch a certain application from an APPX package after install.
- Create AppInstaller file for MSIX packages.
- Instal and configure COMs.
- Azure Active Directory - registering Advanced Installer for Device Guard Signing.
- EV Code Signing in Advanced Installer
- Detect applications that keep files in use at install time.
- Add merge modules to your project.
- Build Microsoft Store distribution and sideloading distribution MSIX packages with a single build operation
- Import an MSIX built with Visual Studio
- Configuring Azure Code Signing or Digicert Keylocker
- Run powershell script to populate a CheckList
- Convert COM registration from MSI to MSIX.
- Files and Folders
- 32/64-bit
- User Interface
- Upgrade
- Uninstall/Maintenance
- ODBC/SQL
- IIS
- Java
- Licensing
- Advanced Analytics SDK
- Windows Mobile/CE
- Application/Package
- FAQs
- Windows Installer
- Deployment Technologies
- IT Pro
- MSIX
- Video Tutorials
- Advanced Installer Blog
- Table of Contents
How to deploy files in the User Profile folder
The following article uses options that are available starting
with the Freeware edition and project
type.
Sometimes you wish to install files directly in the the User Profile folder (C:\users\<username> on Vista or above) or in one of its subfolders (eg. Documents, Pictures, Favorites, Application Data, etc.).
You can achieve this by simply going to Files and Folders page and adding the files in User Profile predefined folder (or one of its subfolders).