Folks:
I have a WIX v3-based installer, which installs just fine.
However, when this installer is run under Windows Vista (with UAC enabled,
and NOT running as administrator), then the UAC dialog appears in the middle
of the installation process, asking "A program needs your permission to
continue".
I have a couple of problems with this. I think it would be less
confusing to users install – if they were prompted at the BEGINNING of the
installation process about the permissions requirements installed of the
middle of the process. Apparently, someone at MSFT thinks otherwise, or they
wouldn't have made things work this way? But I wonder if there is some
straight-forward way with WIX to get the setup.exe to automatically run-as
administrator? Or must I live with this (questionable) choice by Microsoft?
And – more importantly – the dialog which appears – prompting
the user to 'need [sic] permission to continue' – mentions as the name of
the program – '4b9cb3.msi'. Its hard to see how that could be anything but a
confusing name choice as its displayed to a user.
Is there something I can do to get a more reasonable name
displayed to the user when they see the UAC dialog?
Thanks,
Lewis.
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