Running SC on a WIndows 7 machine

[grahamd]

Hi there

We use SC VNC and have the .exe program on our website.

Users go to web site download and run all works well except for Windows 7 pcs when the users are asked for the Administrator password to enable them to run the file.

How do we get Windows 7 to allow the running of the file without logging on as an Administrator?

Thanks for any help
Graham

[JDaus]

Windows 7 makes any self extracting exe request administrator privileges

sc web builder uses 7z to package all the needed components together...

you could use I express or nsis to package all the necessary files. or download scprompt, and use my bat files as a starting point.

[B]

Are you saying they've futzed with the security model so that self-extracting zips that don't try to hide anything require privilege escalation, but that installers that obscure the fact that they're going to be unpacking and creating files do <b>not</b> require security escalation?

That would be insane... but it wouldn't surprise me coming from MS.

[JDaus]

that's what I have seen personally, and read online in various places ...that's the main reason I started looking at nsis scripts.