Ok, I just read further and it seems that the behaviour is related to the setting of the ALLUSERS property. I is explained in detail in
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa371865(VS.85).aspx Cheers Volker Volker Enderlein wrote: > Hi, > > I want my wix based installer to run on windows 2000, XP, and Vista. It > should offer a per-user and per-machine installation. Now I read in a > previous task an answer from Bob Arnson that it's not possible under > Windows Vista to request elevation at run time. But my first tests on a > vista machine yield an opposite result (or at least I am interpreting it > this way). The installer is started without elevation and defaults to an > per-user installation. Later the user/admin can change the preselection > in the GUI to an per-machine installation. And if he presses the install > button Vista UAC prompts for elevation. > All I do is set the ALLUSERS Property for a per-user installation to > "{}" and for a per-machine installation to "1". When running without GUI > it defaults to "2". > > Can someone provide me additional facts for this issue? > > Thanks in advance, Cheers Volker > -- Volker Enderlein Tel: +49 (0)371 53119651 Institut für Mechatronik Fax: +49 (0)371 53119699 Reichenhainer Strasse 88 email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] D-09126 Chemnitz ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Check out the new SourceForge.net Marketplace. It's the best place to buy or sell services for just about anything Open Source. http://sourceforge.net/services/buy/index.php _______________________________________________ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
