Vista/Win7 priveleges

J. Landman Gay jacque at hyperactivesw.com
Fri Jan 22 13:06:27 EST 2010


I use Install Creator to make Windows installers. There is this warning 
in the docs:

"Note about Vista: on Vista you shouldn't run your program from the 
installer, as it will be executed with administrator privileges. For 
example any file created with your program in administrator mode won't 
be overridable the next time your application will be executed, unless 
it is run as administrator."

How limiting is this to the average user? I know Vista/Win7 enforce a 
sort of super-admin mode and I think this is what installers use. Does 
this mean that any documents created after an auto-launch will not be 
accessible at all when the program next runs as a standard user? Even if 
they are logged in as admin? Or if not, what limitations would be 
enforced? I'm not clear on what "overridable" means here.

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Jacqueline Landman Gay         |     jacque at hyperactivesw.com
HyperActive Software           |     http://www.hyperactivesw.com



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