Reading the Installation directory from Registry

Dear All,
Wondering if it is possible somehow to read a path from system register and use that path as an installation (destination) directory for the application ? This should happen programmatically every time when the user starts the installation of the application with the Setup.exe.
Tried to figure out how to set up such dynamic path in the "Destinations"-view of the Installer, but couldn't. Perhaps I should write with LabVIEW my own "Setup-launcher", that reads the path from register and uses that value as an argument with the actual Setup.exe. Has anyone out there succeeded in doing something like this ?
Cheers,
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