What you are seeing is the recommended best practices for Windows. Don't elevate until necessary. Only put the shield on the button that causes elevation. Burn does all that, except you have to put the shield on the "Install" button because your BA shows that. <smile/>
On Fri, Apr 19, 2013 at 1:03 PM, Hoover, Jacob <jacob.hoo...@greenheck.com>wrote: > The Shield icon on the EXE is caused by a manifest change > enforcing that the EXE always runs as admin. There might also be something > hokey if it's named "Setup", but I wouldn't expect that to live forever. > The reason some other installer have the shield icon is they took the lazy > way out and always run as an elevated process. If you do it the Wix way, > you isolate yourself from potentially modifying global state (though you > could still pollute per user stuff). > > I know several have asked in the past about embedding a custom > manifest in a bundle, but I don't think it's supported nor advised. > > -----Original Message----- > From: Marco Tognacci [mailto:mark...@live.it] > Sent: Friday, April 19, 2013 2:58 PM > To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. > Subject: Re: [WiX-users] How to Add UAC Shield on Bunrn setup.exe > > The Burn setup is an exe file, I think that could be a built in way to > make the UAC appear on the setup.exe icon.I have read that to make the > Shield appear is necessary to add it to the manifest, could be this > automated using Wix Burn? > > > From: jacob.hoo...@greenheck.com > > To: afor...@cmu.edu; wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net > > Date: Fri, 19 Apr 2013 19:47:09 +0000 > > Subject: Re: [WiX-users] How to Add UAC Shield on Bunrn setup.exe > > > > So your resulting file is a MSI? In which case, there is no way of > putting a manifest in it or changing its icon. > > > > If your file is an exe, then you are using some other tool to bundle the > MSI into an exe. > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Alain Forget [mailto:afor...@cmu.edu] > > Sent: Friday, April 19, 2013 2:31 PM > > To: 'General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset.' > > Subject: Re: [WiX-users] How to Add UAC Shield on Bunrn setup.exe > > > > Oh whoops, I'm not using burn (only using candle and light), so my > previously-posted code might not be useful (because I don't know a thing > about burn). > > > > Sorry for the possible confusion. > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Marco Tognacci [mailto:mark...@live.it] > > Sent: April 19, 2013 15:15 > > To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. > > Subject: Re: [WiX-users] How to Add UAC Shield on Bunrn setup.exe > > > > My Burn installed works well, but I'm asking if it could have the UAC > > shield on the big icon when it appear in a folder with large image > > size like desktop, I have seen that other installers have this UAC > > shield on the setup.exe icon > > > > > From: jacob.hoo...@greenheck.com > > > To: afor...@cmu.edu; wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net > > > Date: Fri, 19 Apr 2013 19:07:28 +0000 > > > Subject: Re: [WiX-users] How to Add UAC Shield on Bunrn setup.exe > > > > > > Burn should only elevate once, and only when it needs to. Since Burn > can install per-user, it won't elevate on initial start of the exe. Your > BA should elevate automatically when *apply* (I believe) happens. The > install/modify/remove button inside your BA should be the ones to have a > Shield. > > > > > > If you are forcing the non-elevated instance to be elevated, odds are > it's because you are doing "bad things" inside your BA. Your BA should not > modify machine state. > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > > From: Alain Forget [mailto:afor...@cmu.edu] > > > Sent: Friday, April 19, 2013 12:55 PM > > > To: 'General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset.' > > > Subject: Re: [WiX-users] How to Add UAC Shield on Bunrn setup.exe > > > > > > That's pretty surprising. This is how our installer requests admin > privileges: > > > > > > <Condition Message="This installer requires administrator privileges > to run."> > > > Privileged > > > </Condition> > > > > > > Alain > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > > From: Marco Tognacci [mailto:mark...@live.it] > > > Sent: April 19, 2013 13:49 > > > To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net > > > Subject: [WiX-users] How to Add UAC Shield on Bunrn setup.exe > > > > > > I have made a Burn setup, when it start it ask to elevate the > privileges, so I would expect that on the setup there was the UAC shield, > but there was no.Is there a property to set to make the system recognize > that the setup need to elevate privileges, or is it a bug? > > > I'm using last version of wix 3.7 > > > -------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > -- > > > -------- Precog is a next-generation analytics platform capable of > > > advanced analytics on semi-structured data. 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