Typically on Windows, Vista, 7, 8 and the Server editions, you have to be running the installers with an Admin account. These are to protect the system from unauthorized changes. Part of the security hardening added several years ago. If the current user is in the administrative group, then a pop-up asks if they would like to authorize the changes. If the user is NOT in the administrative group, then a pop-up asks for the username/password for an administrative user. If either of these fail, then the changes are not authorized and should roll back.
It is up to the installers to allow the installing user to decide if they want to install “for all users” or “for current user”. Chris Snider Senior Software Engineer Intelligent Software Solutions, Inc. [Description: Description: Description: cid:[email protected]] From: Andrea Aime [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Friday, August 15, 2014 10:33 AM To: Rahkonen Jukka (Tike) Cc: Geoserver-devel Subject: Re: [Geoserver-devel] Interesting discovery about windows installer On Fri, Aug 15, 2014 at 5:39 PM, Rahkonen Jukka (Tike) <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: Hi, This one makes a successful installation with default settings into Program Files (x86) on my home computer. It does not create shortcuts into start menu if installer is started as normal user. If I log in as admin and run installer then the shortcuts are created. I cannot do tests right now, but did you have to become the admin to run the installer? Maybe it has created the shortcuts for the admin, and not for your current user Wondering if asking it to create menu entries for all users would be appropriate... Cheers Andrea -- == GeoServer Professional Services from the experts! Visit http://goo.gl/NWWaa2 for more information. == Ing. Andrea Aime @geowolf Technical Lead GeoSolutions S.A.S. Via Poggio alle Viti 1187 55054 Massarosa (LU) Italy phone: +39 0584 962313 fax: +39 0584 1660272 mob: +39 339 8844549 http://www.geo-solutions.it http://twitter.com/geosolutions_it -------------------------------------------------------
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