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Asked: 2026-05-10T19:32:26+00:00

I have been maintaining an installation for a while but I am not really

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I have been maintaining an installation for a while but I am not really an expert. now I’ve been asked to come up with a solution for this:

Our software is always sold together with a computer as it has to be run in a very controlled environment. The installer needs administrative privileges to be executed. So far we had two different users, one with administrative rights and other one without. Our custumer service login as Administrator, install the software and restart the machine so that the user can access as a normal user.

Now we want the user to be able to install the software themselves but we don’t want them to have access as an administrator because they can modify things it shouldn’t be modified.

So, is there any way to programmatically raise the user privileges during the installation and afterwards lower them back? The installer is made using InstallShield but we use vbscript to check some pre-requisites.

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  1. Check out CPAU. It allows you to create an encrypted command that will run the installation as administrator.

    EDIT: This is a more comprehensive list of like tools.

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