Standard Windows users don't have write permissions to all directories in Windows Vista and beyond (similar to OSX, and other systems). For example, the Program Files and Program Files (x86) directories are off-limits for normal users (and this would be a common place people would want to extract the SDK if they have Flash Builder 4.6 or 4.7).
The big difference is that in Windows XP and below, it was almost always common for users to work with admin privileges.. Vista changed that and forced most users to work as standard users. That's why I'm saying that we should check to see if we can write to the directory and either inform the user, or escalate the app's privilege so we do. If the user selects a directory they have write permissions for, then we would never need admin rights. -Nick On Sat, May 3, 2014 at 11:30 PM, Justin Mclean <jus...@classsoftware.com>wrote: > Hi, > > Perhaps a silly question but why does the installer need admin > permissions? All it doing is downloading and copying files into a directory. > > Is it the choice of directory that causes the issue? And is not required > if people don't try to install in a privileged place? > > Thanks, > Justin
