Am So., 12. Juli 2020 um 06:06 Uhr schrieb Richard Kimberly Heck <
rikih...@lyx.org>:

> On 7/11/20 4:05 PM, Yu Jin wrote:
>
> Am Sa., 11. Juli 2020 um 20:58 Uhr schrieb Bernd <bernd.kappenb...@gmx.de
> >:
>
>> Yes, I started it with the checkbox on the last page of the installer.
>>
>> I use Windows 10 and was using administrator privileges to install LyX
>> 2.3.5.2.
>>
>> (The same happened with an ealier version of LyX.)
>>
>> Strangely, this time I could not activate Acrobat Reader DC, even though
>> I found the output file.
>>
>> After a restart, everything was OK.
>>
>> Bernd
>>
> Looks like after installing LyX as admin and then checking the box on the
> finish page to run LyX, runs it as admin too.
> I didn't put much thought into it when writing Installer2, I thought about
> it just a little. Because I found a comment in the code, which says that
> there was a bug report about this already and it has apparently been fixed
> already, so I didn't worry about it. But it's still not fixed.
>
> This has been a problem for a long time.
>
>
> I have found that there is no easy way to run a process as a user from the
> NSIS installer, only the "hard" way, which means just using a plugin. I
> have found this plugin:
> https://nsis.sourceforge.io/ShellExecAsUser_plug-in.
> i will commit it to Installer2.
>
> Good!
>
>
> Riki, is it worth putting it into Installer as well (for stable that is)?
> It would mean that you would need to install the plugin too.
>
> This seems like a big enough change that we should probably wait for
> 2.4.0. That said, would it be easy to disable the checkbox to run LyX after
> install? That's what causes the problem.
>

Do you mean disabling/removing the checkbox in the NSIS code, so that the
user doesn't have the option to run LyX from the finish page? Yes, it
should be easy. Do you want me to do it for the installer?

Eugene
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