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Subject:	Re: File Permissions on Vista [could be "how to deal with UAC"?]
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On 5/29/07, morgan gangwere  wrote:
- cut out Arnaud's information and Morgan's PGP header / footer -
>
> Cant we make setup.exe check if its Vista? i mean, its an environment
> variable!
>
> UAC does some odd things to user access and permissions.
>
> Just a thought,
> Morgan Gangwere
>
>

http://blogs.msdn.com/onoj/archive/2007/04/20/windows-vista-uac-and-installer-detection.aspx

Vista is supposed to automatically prompt the end-user to enter some
creds with Admin rights (or whatever the appropriate rights are) if
the executable is called 'setup.exe'

Is this not happening?

-Jason

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