Installer Running When Application Launched As Different User

Question

I have an installer built using WIX 3.0 and have a problem when trying to run the installed application as a different user than the user that ran the installer.

When I try to run the installed application as a different user than the user that ran the installer, the installer tries to run again (it's already installed at this point) and pops up some error dialogs and the application won't run.

I'm not sure what's going on, I thought it might be related to me not defining Product/@InstallScope. So I defined @InstallScope as "perMachine", but that didn't have any other effect.

Anyone seen this before that can give me some insight as to what can be done to fix it?

Here is the Package section:

<Package
  Id="*"
  Description="$(var.ProductName)"
  InstallerVersion="301"
  Compressed="yes"
  ReadOnly="yes"
  InstallPrivileges="elevated"
  InstallScope="perMachine" />

Answer 1

Take a look at the application event log ( filter by source MsiInstaller ). It sounds like you have some per-user keypaths and the log will tell you what the component ID is.