Note to others about paths from the registry

[IntelliServ]

I try to install a service unless it is already installed. If there is a service with the same name then I delete the component so a user can't choose to install it. I check to see if the service exists by getting the image path from the registry. That returns a string starting with a double quote (") and ending with a double quote-space (" ). In between those delimiters is the path of the service executable.

I've been wracking my brain for the past couple hours trying to figure out why comparing the registry value to "$TARGETDIR$\\myservice.exe" (including quotes) wasn't working (stupid space at the end) and was about to post here for help when I figured it out. If others are having similar problems, look for extra spaces.