Most likely your CA is running deferred and with elevated privileges, try setting CustomAction/@Impersonate="true"
On Wed, Apr 14, 2010 at 12:53 AM, Francesc Castells <fcaste...@dgtexperts.com> wrote: > Hi, > I have an installer that upgrades an old program and imports the data. To do > that, it opens the old program's config file and gets the path to the data > files (an access .mdb file, for example). The problem is that most of the > times the data was stored in Program Files, so Vista has created a virtual > store to save the modified files. > When the program accesses Program Files, it is redirected by Vista to the > Virtual Store, but when the Custom Action accesses the same folder, it's > actually accessing the Program Files folder. I don't really know how this > VirtualStore business works, but I guess that Vista doesn't "see" the Custom > Action the same way that "sees" the application (regarding user rights or > something). > My questions are: > - Is there any straight forward solution? something I'm missing? > - or should I be looking for some sort of registry search or path > manipulation to find out where the real data is? > - or should I try to find the way of running the CA with the same rights or > something than the application, so Vista does the redirection automatically? > > Any help will be appreciated, > > Francesc > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > 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 > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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
