OT.Entering PW4 License on Windows7

Bob Rasmussen ras at anzio.com
Tue Aug 9 09:25:37 PDT 2011


On Tue, 9 Aug 2011, Kenneth Brody wrote:

> [...]
> 
> And, a quick reminder...
> 
> On Vista and Win7, even "administrator" accounts don't have full privileges. 
>   If you have UAC enabled, you still need to give permission to a program in 
> order for it to run with "elevated privileges".  (The difference being that, 
> with an administrator account, you don't need to enter an administrator 
> password to give that permission.)
> 
> That said, is there a reason why PW4 doesn't come with "run as 
> administrator" set in its properties, or ask for it at runtime?  (I do have 
> programs that do that automatically.  For example, when they need to install 
> an update.)

In general, once installed, no part of Print Wizard needs to Run As 
Administrator ("elevated") except when the admin wants to enter the 
license information. (Actually, they could enter it in printwiz.exe when 
prompted, but it would not "stick", or apply to all users.) So it would be 
violating Microsoft's design goals to run it always elevated.

Furthermore, in some larger organizations the user installing PW does not 
have permission to run elevated. In a university library, for instance, 
they might need to get an admin to authorize installation and the entry of 
the license code, but then never need that level of access again.

Behind the scenes: if you are not running elevated, certain operations 
appear to work, but get "virtualized". One of these is creating files 
within the "Program files" tree. Another is writing to the registry, which 
is where we keep our registration information.

Regards,
....Bob Rasmussen,   President,   Rasmussen Software, Inc.

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