Turn off shared components

Supported on: Windows Installer v4.5

Registry

HKLM Software\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\Installer

Value name: DisableSharedComponent

Enabled: DisableSharedComponent = 1

Disabled: DisableSharedComponent = 0

Description

This policy setting controls the ability to turn off shared components. If you enable this policy setting, no packages on the system get the shared component functionality enabled by the msidbComponentAttributesShared attribute in the Component Table. If you disable or do not configure this policy setting, by default, the shared component functionality is allowed.