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Is it possible to set up a Visual Studio Installer - Setup project so that the generated Setup.msi can be installed without requiring administrator privileges, i.e. install the app for the local user only?

All of my files are placed in the User's Application Data Folder and I tried to completely remove the Application Folder from the File System view but Visual Studio won't let me do that. I don't modify any registry settings or anything else, that would require elevated permissions.

I checked all of the properties of the Deployment Project node but couldn't find any setting relating to UAC.

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  • Duplicate of https://stackoverflow.com/questions/51646358/create-a-setup-for-windows-form-application-without-administrator-password-while – PhilDW Sep 11 '18 at 17:55

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don't call your setup exe "setup.exe"

or add a post build setup to slip a setup.exe.manifest file to the output folder with requestedExecutionLevel set to asInvoker. For an example check https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromium/reference_builds/chrome_win/+/master/setup.exe.manifest

Sheng Jiang 蒋晟
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