How Does Virtualization Tie in with Software Installations, if at all??

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Superfreak3

I was just wondering what role virtualization will play when our
software's installation packages runs. Also, is there any difference
in this role if UAC is enabled/disabled?

Any help, here, is greatly appreciated.

I am currently reading "Windows Vista Application Development
Requirements for User Account Control Compatibility" and have just
reached the subject.

Thanks in advance! : )
 
Mark Russinovich's TechNet Magazine article in June has a good explanation.

http://www.microsoft.com/technet/technetmag/issues/2007/06/UAC/defaul...

Steve Riley
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"For the purposes of this virtualization, Windows Vista treats a
process as legacy if it's 32-bit (versus 64-bit), is not running with
administrative rights, and does not have a manifest file indicating
that it was written for Windows Vista."

Our installation will most likely require Admin/Credentials, at least
for initial install, because we default to Program Files and we write
'stuff' to HKLM. From this and the above snippet of your linked
article, can i take from this that Virtualization will not come into
play during our install process?
 
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