Vista/Win7 priveleges

[Andre Garzia]

That OS really annoys the **** out of me!

That makes no sense at all.

On Fri, Jan 22, 2010 at 4:06 PM, J. Landman Gay <jacque at hyperactivesw.com>wrote:

> 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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