Hi Blair, Sorry about that - i had misunderstood what you meant. Now i get it. I've now stopped defining MSIREALUSERADMINDETECTION and am testing for privileged. I've added a note in the introductory panel as you suggest. Now it works as you expect.
Thanks again! Blair-2 wrote: > > That is exactly what I explained. With UAC on, the user token you launch > the > MSI with is not a member of Admins (the token you retrieve clicking the > "Continue" button is). To compensate, Windows Installer considers everyone > a > member of Administrators (since UAC provides "over-the-shoulder > authorization") so that "legacy" installation packages will still work. A > non-legacy installer that defines the MSIUSEREALADMINDETECTION property > will > get different behavior, which you are seeing. > > My personal opinion: In your introductory dialog, mention that > administrator's privileges will be required to install this package. Don't > define MSIUSEREALADMINDETECTION. Test for Privileged. Don't test for > AdminUser. If the user proceeds through all of the screens but doesn't > know > an administrator's password, they were warned and no harm is otherwise > done. > > -- View this message in context: http://n2.nabble.com/Admin-check-in-Win-2008-tp4557002p4613760.html Sent from the wix-users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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
