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Re: File Permissions on Vista [could be "how to deal with UAC"?]
On 5/29/07, morgan gangwere wrote:
- cut out Arnaud's information and Morgan's PGP header / footer -
Cant we make setup.exe check if its Vista? i mean, its an environment
variable!
UAC does some odd things to user access and permissions.
Just a thought,
Morgan Gangwere
http://blogs.msdn.com/onoj/archive/2007/04/20/windows-vista-uac-and-installer-detection.aspx
Vista is supposed to automatically prompt the end-user to enter some
creds with Admin rights (or whatever the appropriate rights are) if
the executable is called 'setup.exe'
Is this not happening?
-Jason
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