Installing on MS Windows as a normal user

Olly Betts olly at survex.com
Fri Oct 21 10:53:59 BST 2005


On Fri, Oct 21, 2005 at 05:55:38AM +0100, Olly Betts wrote:
> With the latest version of the installer builder, I can conditionalise
> the installation of registry keys on "IsAdminLoggedOn or
> IsPowerUserLoggedOn" (and "not" of that) which means we could do one or
> the other depending what rights the installing user has.  This works
> correctly on Windows 98, but I really need somebody to test it who
> has Windows 2000 or newer and a reasonable understanding of registries,
> adminstrators, and power users.  Any volunteers?

OK, Mike McCombe has verified that the current installer doesn't work
for a non-admin user, and that my intended change fixes the problem.
So no need for more volunteers!

Cheers,
    Olly



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