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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