Installing to local user account using admin account

[pjones]

Hi,

I am trying to get the installer to install to a local user account, but using an administrator account to do so (ie: the user account doesn't have administrator privileges). However, I had the following issues:

1. User data was installed to the administrator profile, not the user profile

2. The registry settings were installed under the administrator account, not the user account

I tried changing the install parameters, but it made no difference.

Can someone explain what I should do?

Thanks
Pete

[Catalin]

Hello Pete and welcome to our forums,

If you want to install the setup per-user, you could go to "Install Parameters" page and select the "per-user" option from the "Installation type" drop-down.

Since your user is not an admin, this should avoid the UAC prompt and also instlaling the resources on a per-machine basis.

Note: besides that option, please make sure you do not manually try to create registries under a per-machine location, or install services, as these automatically require admin rights.

Best regards,
Catalin

[pjones]

Thanks Catalin, will give that a try.

[pjones]

That didn't work as we need admin rights to install some files to the program files folder and also some pre-reqs.

After looking through your documentation, it looks like an active-setup is the answer to install the user data when a user first runs the application.

Pete

[Catalin]

Hello Pete,

After looking through your documentation, it looks like an active-setup is the answer to install the user data when a user first runs the application.

You are indeed right about that!

You can read more about the Active Setup mechanism in our MSI book as well:

https://www.advancedinstaller.com/appli ... setup.html

Best regards,
Catalin