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    <p>I have an application that will be deployed as MSI package (authored in WiX).</p> <p>I am deciding whether to specify <code>elevated</code> or <code>limited</code> privileges as required for the installer.</p> <p>The application does not include anything requiring elevated privileges besides the default install location, which is under Program Files.</p> <p>Now the problem:</p> <ul> <li><p>If I specify <b>elevated privileges</b>, then the user is prompted by UAC for administrator password during the installation. This is not required and prevents non-admin users from installing.</p></li> <li><p>If I specify <b>limited privileges</b>, then the user is presented with a dialog to select install location with <code>Program Files</code> being default. In case they do not change the install location (95 % of end users probably won't), then the installer will fail with a message that they should contact the Administrator or run the application as administrator. If they launch the installer as Administrator then they can install into Program Files without problem - but most of the users won't probably know how to launch an installer as administrator.</p></li> </ul> <p>I can potentially set the default install location to e.g. C:\Company name\Program\, but this seems nonstandard to me and majority of users will not probably like this (they are probably used to installing into Program Files).</p> <p><b>How do you solve this problem with installing applications under limited user accounts?</b></p>
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