On Mon, Jun 9, 2008 at 11:20 PM, "Martin v. Löwis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > One issue (probably not the one of the OP) is still unresolved (AFAIK - > I don't use Vista regularly); an issue that you brought up some time > ago: Installer unreasonably invokes UAC when running the MSI file, even > if this is a "just-for-me" installation. I actually don't know why it > does that - there is nothing in the MSI file specifically requesting > UAC. Instead, Installer makes its own determination of whether UAC is > needed, and I don't know what criteria it uses for that determination. > > So any help would be appreciated.
This UAC behavior is controlled by bit 3 of the word count property in the summary information stream - specifically the legacy value zero requests elevation. Unfortunately, it's not feasible to transform or otherwise change this at run-time, so you have to know ahead of time. If it's set to not require administrator privileges, it can only successfully install into machine locations if it was launched by a full administrator context. http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa372870(VS.85).aspx -- Michael Urman _______________________________________________ Python-3000 mailing list Python-3000@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-3000 Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-3000/archive%40mail-archive.com
