Hello everyone,
I am using Wix 2.0 to create an installation package that installs
everything for the current user (not touching any global areas of the
machine, like Program Files, HKLM, etc.). Therefore, the installer can
be run as a regular user and does not require Administrative privileges.
The reason for this is to comply with security requirements of Vista,
which I may not like but am convinced are here to stay.
What I would like to do is to have the installation totally isolated
from user to user. By this I mean that if user A installs the
application, it should show up only on that user's list of installed
applications. Then, if user B wants to install the application, it all
works as if nobody had ever installed the application on that machine.
Of course, each user should be able to uninstall their instance of the
application without affecting other users on the same machine. This
should also work irregardless of whether user A or B is an administrator
or a regular user.
What I am seeing now is the following:
1. If user A installs the application, it shows up in that user's list
of installed applications AND in user B's list as well (but user B
cannot really use the application because all files were installed only
for A).
2. If user A installs the application, user B cannot install it and is
only offered the options to Repair and to Uninstall. None of them work
very well for user B, since the installation changed some areas of the
machine that belong to user A (such as HKCU), and user B has no access
to those areas; he cannot really Repair anything, and the Uninstallation
leaves things in a dangling state.
3. If user A is not an administrator, he can install the application
without problems (supposing no other user has already installed it, as
explained in point 2), but he cannot uninstall it; instead, he gets an
error message saying he needs to be an administrator to uninstall it.
This is baffling to me.
Is it possible to do what I am describing here? Thanks for any hints and
best regards,
--
Gonzalo Diethelm
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