Problem Creating Distributed application (Setup file)

[Mohammed.Ashraf]

we are developing a tool using Measurement Studio in Visual Studio 2008. Now, we have a problem in its deployment.

We have a rule that the users do not have administrative privileges on their computers. 

And when we created the setup project to install the tool, it needed administrative privileges even when we used the ".msi" file instead of the "setup.exe" which is something we need to avoid.

Is there any way to deploy this tool along with the Measurement Studio dlls without needing administrative privileges?

Thanks in advance

[Christopher_T. · Accepted solution]

Hi Mohammed,

There actually is not a way to run the install tool without administrative rights. The installer requires permission to write to protected paths that can only be accessed through admin. Also just as a side note, you should always run with setup.exe and not the msi since the setup.exe sets flags for the msi to run properly.

Thank you!

Regards,