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That is User Account Control working. Right now, pretty much everything has
UAC pop up a prompt.
 
Dear Rookie (forgive me for using the Major League Baseball Spelling):
http://mlb.mlb.com/NASApp/mlb/index.jsp

Answer is here. This is default behavior for Windows Vista under the new
UAC scheme. If you have suggestions, I would send them to the User Account
team to make sure they're seen since Microsoft has consciously chosen to
restrict your access to using bug information and restrict's everyone's
access to the context of what bugs have been reported overall, what bugs
have been fixed, what bugs will be fixed, ect. You can contact them via
email on the blog site on the link below. Chris Corio is Program Manager
for the User Accounts Team.

See these for a video and complete explanation of your question.

Carolyn Napier and Tyler Robinson (MSI team) - Installing apps in Windows
Vista
http://channel9.msdn.com/Showpost.aspx?postid=134577

Can a non-admin user run an msi?
http://blogs.msdn.com/windows_installer_team/archive/2005/08/01/451337.aspx


Question
Can a non-admin user run an msi?
Answer
If you only install to locations where non-admins users have privileges,
then the answer is easy: yes.

If you install to locations such as program files or HKLM, then the answer
is -- they can with MSI if the package has been blessed by an admin to run
elevated. Otherwise attempts by the non-admin to write to program files are
going to fail. And additionally, a package can't self-elevate -- that would
be a security issue.



Content credit also belongs to


a.. Carolyn, MSI Team Dev Lead. You can get other Carolyn insights about
developing for Windows Installer from the Windows Installer Chat Archives
Windows Development Chat Transcripts
http://msdn.microsoft.com/chats/transcripts/windows/default.aspx

Installing a Package with Elevated Privileges for a Non-Admin
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/d..._with_elevated_privileges_for_a_non-admin.asp

On LIne Chat MSI 3.0 Windows Vista
http://msdn.microsoft.com/chats/transcripts/windows/windows_092304.aspx


Windows Installer with the Driver Install Frameworks Tools (DIFXApp)
http://msdn.microsoft.com/chats/transcripts/windows/windows_101204.aspx

Windows Installer Chat Transcript
http://www.installsite.org/pages/en/msi/chatlog/20050628.htm

Windows Installer 4.0 Video
http://216.239.51.104/search?q=cach...er+windows+installer&hl=en&gl=us&ct=clnk&cd=9


Enjoy,

CH
 
I have a msi that runs just fine under a restricted user account (member of
users group). This msi does not need admin rights to run under XP (all
changes made in user profile). Msi is signed. When I run this msi in Vista,
I get prompted for admin credentials.

Can anybody suggest where I should start looking into this problem?

/Rookiee
 
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