With UAC on vista no user is an admin unless they approve an elevate (via the UAC prompt). If you need a custom action to run with elevated privileges (a real admin) then you need to do a deferred CA with Impersonate = yes. This is what you are doing in your sample and it is the correct way to do it.
Mike Poulson Network Engineer Tableau Software 400 North 34th Street, Suite 200 Seattle, WA 98103 206 633 3400 x.556 -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of WenWu Ru Sent: Friday, April 13, 2007 9:27 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [WiX-users] How to set msidbCustomActionTypeNoImpersonate in Wix? A custom action in my installer fails on Vista even if an admin user logs on and launches the installer. I figured that the custom action needs to have msidbCustomActionTypeNoImpersonate set and adding Impersonate="no" would fix the issue. To my suprise, the ActionType is still 1025. Instead, I have to use Impersonate="yes" to set the bit and get the ActionType to be 3073. Is this correct? Am I missing something? I am using WiX version 2.0.3016.0. <CustomAction Id="WriteToRegistry" Return="check" Execute="deferred" Impersonate="yes" BinaryKey="InstallerCustomActions.dll" DllEntry="WriteToRegistry" /> Thanks! _________________________________________________________________ MSN is giving away a trip to Vegas to see Elton John. Enter to win today. http://msnconcertcontest.com?icid-nceltontagline ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys-and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ WiX-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
