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Jeremy 9956352be0 packaging(windows): dual-scope MSI, per-user by default, under the ArtCraft suite folder
Microsoft "Single Package Authoring": Package/Scope="perUserOrMachine"
writes ALLUSERS=2 and MSIINSTALLPERUSER=1, so the package installs
per-user by default (no UAC prompt) into %LOCALAPPDATA%\Programs\ArtCraftPhotoCraft (Windows Installer redirects the ProgramFiles folder in a
per-user install), and per-machine into Program Files\ArtCraft\PhotoCraft
through the setup wizard's "Install for all users" box or msiexec
ALLUSERS=1. Registry follows the context automatically: HKMU writes HKCU
per-user and HKLM per-machine, HKCR classes land in HKCU\Software\Classes
per-user, and components are keyed on registry values (ICE38).

Upgrades update the copy registered in the same context: the remembered
InstallDir is read from HKLM and HKCU separately, and installing in the
other context while a copy already exists is stopped with a message naming
the fix rather than creating a silent duplicate. The existing UpgradeCode,
ProductCode behaviour and per-machine upgrades are unchanged.

The Start Menu shortcut becomes non-advertised in its own component (an
advertised shortcut must target its component keypath, which is now a
registry value), as the ArtCraft Launcher's MSI already does.

Built and checked with WiX 5.0.2: full ICE validation and ICE50 pass, and
the built package's Property table, launch conditions, directory chain and
registry roots were read back from the MSI.
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