InstallScope does two things: It sets/clears the same values as InstallPrivileges, and it sets/clears the ALLUSERS property, ensuring that the two values are consistent with each other.
It is possible to have a per-user installation that requires elevated privileges, but that is not what most seek. Usually they want per-user/limited or per-machine/elevated. InstallScope is a one-stop spot for getting that state right. -----Original Message----- From: Scharp, Craig [mailto:craig.sch...@zytax.com] Sent: Wednesday, February 17, 2010 1:00 PM To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. Subject: Re: [WiX-users] How to skip UAC (vista and 7) Thanks Blair. I also appear to have solved this by changing InstallPrivileges to "limited". Funny how I can spend hours trying and searching, but find the solution 5 minutes after sending the help email. Thx! -----Original Message----- From: Blair [mailto:os...@live.com] Sent: Wednesday, February 17, 2010 2:43 PM To: 'General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset.' Subject: Re: [WiX-users] How to skip UAC (vista and 7) Set Package/@InstallScope="perUser" to avoid the UAC prompt. Add the property ARPSYSTEMCOMPONENT to prevent showing up in ARP. -----Original Message----- From: Scharp, Craig [mailto:craig.sch...@zytax.com] Sent: Wednesday, February 17, 2010 12:15 PM To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. Subject: [WiX-users] How to skip UAC (vista and 7) Hi all, I have a small msi that is mostly custom actions to update database data. I'm not doing anything with add/remove programs or registry. I'm setting targetdir to [TempFolder] and my scripts and executables are getting copied to that temp folder correctly. But, when a client has uac enabled, I'm not able to avoid that popup. I've read on the net that you can avoid it if you don't install to programfiles, or hklm, or (others). Has anyone successfully done this? If so, any suggestions would be appreciated. Thanks! Craig Scharp Sr. Technical Engineer FuelQuest, Inc. W: 920.617.7650 C: 920.619.2983 | www.fuelquest.com<http://www.fuelquest.com/> | Fueling Business Blog<http://www.fuelquest.com/blog> Register Now for Grail 2010!<http://www.regonline.com/grail_2010> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- SOLARIS 10 is the OS for Data Centers - provides features such as DTrace, Predictive Self Healing and Award Winning ZFS. Get Solaris 10 NOW http://p.sf.net/sfu/solaris-dev2dev _______________________________________________ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- SOLARIS 10 is the OS for Data Centers - provides features such as DTrace, Predictive Self Healing and Award Winning ZFS. Get Solaris 10 NOW http://p.sf.net/sfu/solaris-dev2dev _______________________________________________ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- SOLARIS 10 is the OS for Data Centers - provides features such as DTrace, Predictive Self Healing and Award Winning ZFS. Get Solaris 10 NOW http://p.sf.net/sfu/solaris-dev2dev _______________________________________________ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Download Intel® Parallel Studio Eval Try the new software tools for yourself. Speed compiling, find bugs proactively, and fine-tune applications for parallel performance. See why Intel Parallel Studio got high marks during beta. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-sw-dev _______________________________________________ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
