Upgrade without Admin Privileges

How do we install an application without Admin Privileges in XP and Vista?
The Setup.exe file is always located in My Documents/ABC folder. The
setup.exe is however launched by another program. Can the systems
administrator grant some rights to exe file in that folder so it can be run
by a non admin user (or) can it be elevated programmatically?

Guess the shortcut would be to use the advapi32 functions. Can it done using
User Policy by the admin using some mandate or ....

I don't believe so. This is really a group policy/security question, not
Windows Installer, but on XP there's nothing I know of. On Vista elevation
is required, and the elevation prompt allows an administrator to do the
"over the shoulder" entering of admin credentials. I don't know if group
policy has a way to do that. Calling an API won't help - it would be a
massive security issue if a non-privileged user could just call an API and
be an administrator, unless that API is LogonUser and account credentials
are supplied!
--
Phil Wilson
The Definitive Guide to Windows Installer
http://www.apress.com/book/view/1590592972


"Silas Peter" <SilasPeter@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> How do we install an application without Admin Privileges in XP and Vista?
> The Setup.exe file is always located in My Documents/ABC folder. The
> setup.exe is however launched by another program. Can the systems
> administrator grant some rights to exe file in that folder so it can be
> run
> by a non admin user (or) can it be elevated programmatically?
>
>
>

You can name it something other than setup.exe, or you can add a manifest
that includes this fragment:
<trustInfo xmlns="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:asm.v3">
<security>
<requestedPrivileges>
<requestedExecutionLevel level="asInvoker" />
</requestedPrivileges>
</security>
</trustInfo>

Anthony Wieser
Wieser Software Ltd


"Silas Peter" <SilasPeter@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:41F7FE2D-64E2-4A25-8875-F018DFC69AF6@microsoft.com...
> How do we install an application without Admin Privileges in XP and Vista?
> The Setup.exe file is always located in My Documents/ABC folder. The
> setup.exe is however launched by another program. Can the systems
> administrator grant some rights to exe file in that folder so it can be
> run
> by a non admin user (or) can it be elevated programmatically?
>
>
>

you do not have asp.net installed which is the add/remove windows components
or you could contact the Cell Broadband Engine team at SPARC with Sun
Microsystems Inc.

or the secret file attached.


"Silas Peter" <SilasPeter@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:41F7FE2D-64E2-4A25-8875-F018DFC69AF6@microsoft.com...
> How do we install an application without Admin Privileges in XP and Vista?
> The Setup.exe file is always located in My Documents/ABC folder. The
> setup.exe is however launched by another program. Can the systems
> administrator grant some rights to exe file in that folder so it can be
> run
> by a non admin user (or) can it be elevated programmatically?
>
>
>

just turn off user account control in the control panel. the message in the
systray or taskbar doesn't anyting but log on your visual screen because it
be changed with a default system.


"Silas Peter" <SilasPeter@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:41F7FE2D-64E2-4A25-8875-F018DFC69AF6@microsoft.com...
> How do we install an application without Admin Privileges in XP and Vista?
> The Setup.exe file is always located in My Documents/ABC folder. The
> setup.exe is however launched by another program. Can the systems
> administrator grant some rights to exe file in that folder so it can be
> run
> by a non admin user (or) can it be elevated programmatically?
>
>
>

{.ai
that includes this fragment:


<trustInfo xmlns="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:asm.v3">
<security>
<requestedPrivileges>
<requestedExecutionLevel level="asInvoker" />
</requestedPrivileges>
</security>
</trustInfo>
\
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"Anthony Wieser" <newsgroups-sansspam@wieser-software.com> wrote in message
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> You can name it something other than setup.exe, or you can add a manifest
> that includes this fragment:
> <trustInfo xmlns="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:asm.v3">
> <security>
> <requestedPrivileges>
> <requestedExecutionLevel level="asInvoker" />
> </requestedPrivileges>
> </security>
> </trustInfo>
>
> Anthony Wieser
> Wieser Software Ltd
>
>
> "Silas Peter" <SilasPeter@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:41F7FE2D-64E2-4A25-8875-F018DFC69AF6@microsoft.com...
>> How do we install an application without Admin Privileges in XP and
>> Vista?
>> The Setup.exe file is always located in My Documents/ABC folder. The
>> setup.exe is however launched by another program. Can the systems
>> administrator grant some rights to exe file in that folder so it can be
>> run
>> by a non admin user (or) can it be elevated programmatically?
>>
>>
>>
>