Problem with Windows install script...

[DRAGONPASS]

Hi there,

 

I've scripted a install script for a little javafx application I developed myself.

Now the install script is working fine when I'm logged on with the Administrator account (Admin rights are necessary because files need to be copied/created in restricted areas e.g. shortcut in the Public Desktop directory).

But when I'm logged on as a simple user and I try to run the script as Administrator, the files can't be copied because the working directory changes to C:\Windows\System32

 

Now I didn't specify  absolute paths for the files that shall be copied, because the script is for a company and I don't know where the initial files will be located.

So the install script fails because the files to copy can't be found.

avoiding this by using "runas" inside the install script isn't a option because then a specific Administrator account needs to be hardcoded.

 

Any ideas how the initial files can be "found" after the directory has changed? Just running a query for the unpacked file archive seems a bit dirty for me...

 

Thanks in advance!

[DRAGONPASS]

Solved it by myself/ found a workaround:

 

The shortcut creation into Public Desktop was the only part that didn't work without admin privileges (program files were already placed in a unresticted directory).

So I rebuilt the install script, so that the shortcut is only created for the current user and added functionality that only the user shortcut is created when the program files already exists.

 

So now the same install script can be run for every user, but just the shortcut is created, when the progam files are already installed.

 

Problem solved