Re: [WiX-users] How to detect if UAC is turned on

2008-01-08 Thread Scott Palmer
On Jan 7, 2008 6:18 PM, Mike Dimmick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Right, let's explain UAC. > I've replied to Mike off-list as the discussion is not about WiX or MSI anymore. If anyone has related comments to add, please mail me privately to keep the list on-topic. Thanks, Scott -

Re: [WiX-users] How to detect if UAC is turned on

2008-01-07 Thread Mike Dimmick
, but then I ran as a standard user on XP through choice). Working properly for non-admin users has been in the Logo requirements since before Windows 2000. It's about time we started getting it right. -- Mike Dimmick _____ From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Scot

Re: [WiX-users] How to detect if UAC is turned on

2008-01-07 Thread Scott Palmer
On Jan 4, 2008 6:04 PM, Chesong Lee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Can I ask why you want to prevent your setup to be launched with UAC > enabled? > Your installer will be run with UAC on most of the cases. > Probably not without degrading the thread to a flame fest :-) Let's just say after carefu

Re: [WiX-users] How to detect if UAC is turned on

2008-01-04 Thread Christopher Painter
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Christopher Painter Sent: Friday, January 04, 2008 2:53 PM To: Scott Palmer; wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [WiX-users] How to detect if UAC is turned on I'm sure you about to get jumped

Re: [WiX-users] How to detect if UAC is turned on

2008-01-04 Thread Wilson, Phil
o: Scott Palmer; wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [WiX-users] How to detect if UAC is turned on I'm sure you about to get jumped for even thinking about it :-)However, UAC/LUA can be manipulated via policy and it gets stored in the registry like: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWA

Re: [WiX-users] How to detect if UAC is turned on

2008-01-04 Thread Chesong Lee
Can I ask why you want to prevent your setup to be launched with UAC enabled? Your installer will be run with UAC on most of the cases. On Jan 4, 2008 2:07 PM, Scott Palmer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I want to detect if UAC is turned on in Vista and refuse to install if it > is. How can I do th

Re: [WiX-users] How to detect if UAC is turned on

2008-01-04 Thread Christopher Painter
I'm sure you about to get jumped for even thinking about it :-)However, UAC/LUA can be manipulated via policy and it gets stored in the registry like: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\System] "ConsentPromptBehaviorAdmin"=dword:0002 "Consent

[WiX-users] How to detect if UAC is turned on

2008-01-04 Thread Scott Palmer
I want to detect if UAC is turned on in Vista and refuse to install if it is. How can I do this? Scott - This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2005. http://clk.atdmt.com/