[Python-3000] Install on Vista / AMD64 AthlonX2 platform

[Michael Urman]

On Tue, Jun 10, 2008 at 5:55 PM, Mark Hammond <mhammond at skippinet.com.au> wrote:
> [Getting slightly off-topic for py3k, but relevant to our universe anyway....]
>
> Hi  Michael,
>  Just to be clear, you are saying it is *impossible* to have a single .MSI file that, based on a user preference, either a) prompt for UAC and writes to HKLM or b) not prompt but writes to HKCU instead?  I'd find that somewhat ironic, as bdist_wininst based installers are now capable of doing that ;)

Yes, that is my experience with the matter. I haven't tested it
exhaustively (or recently), but set to not require the UAC prompt, it
never will show it; set to prompt, it never won't. I would have
expected a design based more on ALLUSERS, but Microsoft recommends
choosing ahead of time which way to set it (doing away with the
"install for all users or just for me" options), and this behavior
pretty much seals it.

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Michael Urman