Re: [Tuxpaint-devel] Provide "all user" installation for Windows Professional (attn: John Popplewell)

[Albert C. <al...@us...>]

On Fri, 2005-07-15 at 23:22 -0700, Bill Kendrick wrote:
> Can we make sure this is dealt with soon, so that when we
> release Tux Paint 0.9.15 the issue is fixed?
> 
> 
>   Provide "all user" installation for Windows Professional
> 
>   https://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=1173943&group_id=66938&atid=516298
> 
>     It looks as if the installer was written for non pro versions of 
>     windows since it installs the program menu for the current 
>     user and not for all users. Many installers check for this and 
>     either install in the all user area on pro machines or have a 
>     check box to install for all users. 

You certainly can't rely on being able to install for
all users. That only works when the user is an admin
or when filesystem and registry permissions are wrong.