Should I use vcredist.exe or the msm's to install the Visual C++ runtime library

Question

What are the pluses and minuses to using the vcredist.exe versus the msm files to install the Visual C++ 8.0 runtime libraries?

Answer 1

Another issue with the merge modules I recently bumped into is that they set the MSI installer property ALLUSERS to 1 which means per-machine. That forces your whole install to be per-machine, which is a problem if you want it to be per-user. Whether there's a way to have a per-user installer that includes a CRT merge module I don't know, but I haven't found it yet.