Re: [NF] Windows permissions

Author: Jeff Johnson

Posted: 2014-05-01 at 07:31:30

On 5/1/2014 5:19 AM, Frank Cazabon wrote:

> Al,

>

> when Vista first came out I followed Doug Hennig's advice on using

> Inno Setup to install my applications (and data if necessary) in

> Program Files. The installation does the setting of the necessary

> user rights so user's don't have to mess with changing rights.

>

> On 01/05/2014 07:34 AM, Allen wrote:

>> True but you should not have to get the user to play with rights.

>> Al

>>

>> -----Original Message-----

>>

>> You can give rights to the folder, just make that one public.

>>

>>

>

I use a "loader" from VMP that copies a file from

c:\users\public\applications\myapp\update to ...\myapp. It has worked

flawlessly for years. With Windows 8 & Windows Server 2008 it will not

copy so I have to do it manually. It doesn't give me an error message

either. Just doesn't copy.

--

Jeff

Jeff Johnson

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