special folders - and Install Gadget
Sadhunathan Nadesan
sadhu at castandcrew.com
Thu May 3 14:00:34 EDT 2007
>There's also the issue of what app's doing the installation - it is
>very common (esp. on Windows) for an installer to request authorization
>or have a built-in method of elevating its permission level for the
>purpose of the installation - but that's different than when the
>installed program itself runs. So you might be able to install an
>executable to a folder and then not have the executable itself be able
>to write to the folder it's in.
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Good answer Ken!
We are using the _excellent_ InstallGadget tool - not sure what it may
do with respect to elevating it's permission level (perhaps the author
will chime in here?) - but I do know that every time I turn around
Windows Vista asks my permission for something.
Aloha
Sadhu
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