Installer Error when UAC disabled on Vista as a user account

[jamesish]

Hey folks,

I discovered recently that my installer doesn't work as I expected it to when I am logged in to Windows Vista if I am logged in as a user account and have UAC turned off.

The setup for the workflow is:

1. log in to windows vista as an admin
2. disable UAC
3. log out of the admin account and log in to a user account


From there, I followed two workflows:

1. I double clicked on the installer. I expected to see an error message telling me the installer required me to have administrator privileges, and I did see that error message. This workflow works correctly.
2. I right clicked on the installer, chose "run as admin". I expected to see an administrator credentials prompt. I saw the warning box that This Program Requires Administrator Privileges.

Running the same workflows on Windows 7, in workflow 2 I receive an administrator credentials prompt.


I believe this may be an issue with Windows Vista's UAC implementation, but I wanted to check in and see whether this is actually an installaware issue. Is this behavior the behavior that you folks expect?

Thanks!

[mills]

Are you sure UAC is disabled? You shouldn't get any prompt if it is...

What setting do you have for Request Elevation Level in Summary & UAC view?

[jamesish]

Hi there,

I have Vista UAC elevation set to "Elevate Administrators Only (highest available)".

You are correct on Windows 7 UAC -- turns out I hadn't restarted my OS when I turned UAC off. Once I did restart, user accounts no longer brought up a request for credentials.