Sure, no problem - sorry for the lack of detail...

The windows installer (tested on 2.5.2) normally puts some values in
the windows registry at:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Python\PythonCore\<version>

(where <version> is the python version).

Including the important one for me:  InstallPath.

The bug is in the installer msi, and will need to be fixed in whatever
generates it, ideally the installpath should always be set.

In order to install python silently, run

msiexec python-2.5.2.msi /quiet

This will install python to the default path (c:\python) and the
registry values won't be set.  I believe their probably set in the
interactive part of the installation.

2008/12/6 Martin v. Löwis <report@bugs.python.org>:
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> Martin v. Löwis <martin@v.loewis.de> added the comment:
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> Can you please be more explicit? What exact command line have you been
> using, and what exact registry do you think should have been set but wasn't?
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