Gurleen
13th October 2004 22:03 UTC

getting the installed program to work for all users rather than the user who installs
I have to install a program as an admin because I need to look at various system properties. I have the installer ready , the problem I am getting is that a normal user can't use the installed program because he/she does not have rights to read/write to files that the installer(as an admin) copied to the system.
Is there any flag that I can use to set the installation for any user of the system rather than the user which installs the program.

I was looking through the Help files I and found this command ---> SetShellVarContext
would this command beenough to make it happen.

hannes
13th October 2004 22:08 UTC

Yes, 'SetShellVarContext All' makes the $Desktop and such constants point to the 'All Users' directory, however, then normal users cannot change these files.

I just posted 10 mins earlier about this.

but this may not be a problem in your case.

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After re-reading your post, I found that you are asking a slightly different question than I thought, you need to run the installation as administrator, otherwise normal users cannot write to the places you want.
Using 'SetShellVarContext All' will just make the installation use the All users directory instead of the logged in (or run as) user.
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