[wix-users] Execute a binary with administrator privileges.

[Edwin Castro]

No worries. I'm glad it seems you have figured out what was happening. :-)

--
Edwin G. Castro


On Tue, Feb 19, 2019 at 9:21 AM Letty Lo Gon <letty95 at gmail.com> wrote:

>
> Hi
> An apology for the delay in answering, after a lot of research and debug,
> I have a conclusion,
> This is not a WIX problem, as you mentioned to me in the first email this
> is a problem regarding to Windows, and there are several workarounds to
> execute a binary as administrator.
> Again, an apology for insist on this problem.
> I appreciate the effort and the time invested in reading about my problem.
>
> Kind regards
> Leticia Lomeli
>
> On Mon, Feb 11, 2019 at 3:45 PM Edwin Castro via wix-users <
> wix-users at lists.wixtoolset.org> wrote:
>
>> Adding wix-users again so that other can also answer.
>>
>> It seems the problem is that "Run as administrator" doesn't show up for
>> your configuration tool in the context menu. Assuming your configuration
>> tool has an .exe extension then I would expect Windows to already handle
>> this automatically.
>>
>> It is interesting that your x86 and x64 installers appear to work
>> differently. Are you testing both installers on the same test system? If
>> not, then perhaps the x86 system is corrupted? Do you see "Run as
>> administrator" for any other executable on your x86 system?
>>
>> --
>> Edwin G. Castro
>>
>>
>> On Mon, Feb 11, 2019 at 12:52 PM Letty Lo Gon <letty95 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> > Hi,
>> > Well to answer that I must say that the exe file embedded that is
>> > installed, is a configuration tool that helps to interact to some
>> devices.
>> > The whole product is a driver, so this binary should be executed as
>> > administrator, however, when I tried to do a right click on it, I don't
>> see
>> > the Administrator option.
>> >
>> > A little bit more information. I have to installers one for x86 and the
>> > second one for x64, the installer for x64 allows me to execute the
>> binary
>> > as administrator. This binary is on a merge module, that is referenced
>> on
>> > the installer.
>> > For the x86 installer, I have the same binary compiled for x86, in a
>> > different merge module, and is referenced in the same way as I do in
>> x64,
>> > however, when the x86 installation is done, and I tried to execute this
>> > binary as administrator, I don't see the option.
>> > I already did some debugging on the installer and also in the merge
>> > modules that contains this binary, and its pretty much the same
>> properties
>> > that I'm using in both architectures, but the result is different.
>> >
>> > Thanks for try to help me
>> > Kind Regards
>> > Leticia Lomeli
>> >
>> >
>> > On Mon, Feb 11, 2019 at 2:04 PM Edwin Castro <egcastr at gmail.com> wrote:
>> >
>> >> I still think Rob's answer is correct if I am understanding what you're
>> >> saying.
>> >>
>> >> Let's get the installer out of the way. What would you do manually to
>> >> allow you to execute the files as administrator? What behavior do you
>> >> expect? What behavior do you actually get?
>> >>
>> >> --
>> >> Edwin G. Castro
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> On Mon, Feb 11, 2019 at 11:05 AM Letty Lo Gon via wix-users <
>> >> wix-users at lists.wixtoolset.org> wrote:
>> >>
>> >>> >
>> >>> >
>> >>> > Hi,
>> >>> > Thanks in advance to take time to answer this question, I may not
>> >>> explain
>> >>> > myself in a good way. The setup.exe allows to be executed as an
>> >>> > administrator and also as a normal user, but after the installation
>> is
>> >>> > done. Some files installed(exe Files embedded), allow me to execute
>> >>> them as
>> >>> > administrator, and other ones not, this is the reason why I think
>> >>> could be
>> >>> > a property that I can set up, or maybe the level indicated for each
>> >>> > component that contains this files.
>> >>> > After this information, do you think is something related to WIX or
>> >>> should
>> >>> > I search in Microsoft Information?
>> >>> >
>> >>>
>> >>> Kind Regards
>> >>> Leticia Lomeli
>> >>>
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