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What Developers should know about Windows 7 without Internet Explorer

As you've probably read before, in Europe Windows 7 will ship without Internet Explorer. This edition will be called "Windows 7 E" and Internet Explorer will not be included for legal reasons. Users will be able to install IE themselves, but it will not be installed by default. For the...

Posted to InstallSite Blog by stefan on Wed, Jul 15 2009
Filed under: Filed under: Web Resources, Windows 7, Application Compatibility
MSI Compatibility: Lying about VersionNT and ServicePackLevel

MSI 5 on Windows 7 introduces a new application compatibility setting, as Chris Jackson describes in his blog . To work around too strict OS version checks in LaunchConditions, Windows Installer can automatically try several variations of values for the VersionNT and ServicePackLevel properties to circumvent...

Posted to InstallSite Blog by stefan on Sat, Jul 4 2009
Filed under: Filed under: Web Resources, Windows Installer, Windows 7, MSI 5, Application Compatibility
False Positives in Windows 7's Installer Detection

When User Account Control (UAC ) was introduced in Windows Vista it would have caused problems for many existing setups because they required full administrator permissions. Therefore Microsoft added heuristical detection for installers. For instance if it detects a keyword like “setup” or...

Posted to InstallSite Blog by stefan on Wed, Jun 24 2009
Filed under: Filed under: Web Resources, UAC, Windows 7, Application Compatibility
Why UAC isn’t a security boundary, and how auto-elevation works on Windows 7

Mark Russinovich (of SysInternals fame and now employed as a Technical Fellow at Microsoft) has published an interesting article about User Account Control (UAC) in the July issue of TechNet Magazine. He discusses the goal of UAC, why it could be circumvented by malware, and how auto-elevation on Windows...

Posted to InstallSite Blog by stefan on Thu, Jun 11 2009
Filed under: Filed under: Web Resources, UAC, Security, Windows 7, Application Compatibility

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What Developers should know about Windows 7 without Internet Explorer

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False Positives in Windows 7's Installer Detection

Why UAC isn’t a security boundary, and how auto-elevation works on Windows 7