On Sat, 23 Jan 2010 19:19:03 +0100, Warp <war### [at] tagpovrayorg> wrote:
> Thorsten Froehlich <tho### [at] trfde> wrote:
>> You realize that under Vista the issue is not that POV-Ray does not  
>> want to
>> install in program files, but as discussed numerous times before, is not
>> allowed to install there by Vista itself unless *you*, the user, allow  
>> it to
>> do so.
>
>   What do other programs do? I don't remember seeing the same complaint  
> in relation to other programs (ie. that the program installs itself into
> the My Documents folder by default).

Many installers are properly setup to request privilege escalation if  
needed. In some cases, Windows itself will deduce that it is needed and  
automatically prompt for it.



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FE

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