jamesblast
8th February 2007 08:42 UTC

Vista rights-question
Hello,

I want to create a setup that can be started by a normal user and an administrator.

I figured this out already. So I have to set the RequestExecutionLevel user.

The problem with that is: if I want to install into the "program files"-dir. The installer says it can't create the files there, even if I run the installer as an admin. I think this is because, windows runs the app in usermode because of the setting above.

I need to be able to run the setup as user, because there is one option users can select. But the other option could be run as admin.

How could I get the installer to popup the windows-vista message to ask for permissions in program files dir and NOT directly on execution of the setup file?

I hope someone can help me with that!

Thank you!

kichik
8th February 2007 20:38 UTC

You can wrap an elevated installer that'd install into the Program Files directory inside the normal installer and execute it for administrators.

jamesblast
16th February 2007 07:00 UTC

Thank you kichik.

I could do it that way. The problem is, that this almost doubles the file-size, because I would have to put all the installfiles into the maininstallert (for users and tmp-dir installation) AND also into the admininstaller (program files-dir installation).

Perhaps there is another solution?

Thank you!

Regards,
james

kichik
16th February 2007 17:17 UTC

What about having the wrapper installer, running as user, only installing that other option?