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Hi,

DePriest, Jason R. wrote:
> 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.
>>
>
> 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?

This is not the problem. The problem is that with UAC activated any file 
and folder created
with windows applications will have no access right (like a chmod 000).
I suppose that Morgan was referring to the possibility of a message 
prompted by the installer that with UAC
enabled, unexpected results may happen.

Perhaps Morgan can also point out other issues with UAC enabled.

Arnaud.

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