[wix-users] [WIX]: How to run *.exe (which was launched by MSI) under current user account

[Farrukh Waheed]

In this thread
<http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1543753/start-exe-after-msi-install-but-using-current-user-privileges>,
they have used Remote Desktop Services API Functions. I never tried these,
but looks like some working solution.
Hope it helps..

On 5 April 2016 at 13:40, Farrukh Waheed <farrukh1 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Did you tried with Impersonate="no"? Actually, I've developed a Managed
> Bootstrapper and doing the Launch things with that. And never got any need
> to use current user account as in your case....
>
> On 5 April 2016 at 12:18, Dileep S <dileep.sanampudi at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> I have created an MSI package using WIX 3.7
>>
>> Required the below options.
>>
>> 1) MSI package should display UAC prompt before extracting files.
>>
>> 2) *.exe file should launch after extracting the files.
>>
>> 3) *.exe should run under current user account.
>>
>> Case1: Following syntax used in WIX script file to launch an EXE.
>>
>> > <Package InstallerVersion="200" Compressed="yes"
>> InstallScope="perMachine"
>> > InstallPrivileges="elevated" />
>> > <CustomAction Id="InstallDRV" Directory="INSTALLDIR" Execute="deferred"
>> > ExeCommand="MyApplication.exe" Impersonate="no" Return="asyncNoWait"
>> />​​
>>
>> Observation:
>>
>> *.exe is running under Local System account.
>>
>> Case2: Following syntax used in WIX script file to launch an EXE.
>>
>> > ​<Package InstallerVersion="200" Compressed="yes" InstallScope="perUser"
>> > InstallPrivileges="limited" />
>> > <CustomAction Id="InstallDRV" Directory="INSTALLDIR" Execute="immediate"
>> > ExeCommand="MyApplication.exe" Impersonate="yes" Return="ignore" />​​
>>
>> Observation:
>>
>> 1) UAC prompt is not displayed
>>
>> 2) *exe is not launched.
>>
>> Case3: Following syntax used in WIX script file to launch an EXE.
>>
>> > ​<Package InstallerVersion="200" Compressed="yes"
>> > InstallScope="perMachine" InstallPrivileges="elevated" />
>> > <CustomAction Id="InstallDRV" BinaryKey="SampleCA"
>> > DllEntry="CustomAction1" Execute="immediate"  Impersonate="yes"
>> > Return="ignore" />​​
>>
>> Observation:
>>
>> 1) *.exe is running as local system account.
>>
>>
>> How to resolve this issue?
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> Dileep
>>
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