Why does your installer require admin to run? Are you bootstrapping things in addition to your MSI?
-----Original Message----- From: little.forest [mailto:little.for...@ymail.com] Sent: Wednesday, December 16, 2009 11:08 AM To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: [WiX-users] How to launch application as Standard User while the installer ran as Admin Our installer needs Admin right to run. So a "Standard user" has to run the installer "run as Admin". On the final page of the installer, we have a "Launch application" option. So the user can check that option and launch the application. Our application will ask a license key. The user inputs the license key. But the key will be saved in "C:\Documents and Settings\Administrator\Application Data" folder. Then the user exits the application. And run the application again by using the normal "Standard user" privilege. Then the application will ask the license key again, because the license key wasn't saved in the right folder such as "C:\Documents and Settings\JoeSmith\Application Data". How to resolve this problem? I'm thinking two options: 1. The user can "run as admin". But the application will be launched by using "Standard user". This way, the license key input by the user will be saved in the correct spot, namely, the users setting folder like "C:\Documents and Settings\JoeSmith\Application Data". But how to do it? 2. If there is a way that the installer can detect this installation was from "run as admin", then set a property. Then in the final page's launch application option, we'll check this property. If it's set then we disable the "launch application" option. This will stop the user "running the application as admin" - they don't need to input license key two times. Is there a way to detect if the installation "run as admin"? By the way, we're using the code example from Wix.chm "How To: Run the Installed Application After Setup" section. Thanks in advance. /Brian __________________________________________________________________ Make your browsing faster, safer, and easier with the new Internet ExplorerR 8. Optimized for Yahoo! Get it Now for Free! at http://downloads.yahoo.com/ca/internetexplorer/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Verizon Developer Community Take advantage of Verizon's best-in-class app development support A streamlined, 14 day to market process makes app distribution fast and easy Join now and get one step closer to millions of Verizon customers http://p.sf.net/sfu/verizon-dev2dev _______________________________________________ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Verizon Developer Community Take advantage of Verizon's best-in-class app development support A streamlined, 14 day to market process makes app distribution fast and easy Join now and get one step closer to millions of Verizon customers http://p.sf.net/sfu/verizon-dev2dev _______________________________________________ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
