In my InstallScript MSI project I am setting folder permissions on several of my folders under [ProgramFilesFolder]. I'm doing this by right-clicking on the folder and accessing the permissions dialog and then setting Full Control the "Everyone"
This is working great except on folders that I have exe files created with .NET i.e. C# programs, VB.NET programs. The other folders have exe files created with VB6.
This thread seems to be related to my orginal thread "VISTA and Setting Folder Permissions do not always work" Or, somebody is having the same problems as me.
I am setting permissions on the folder to get around the UAC / Virtual Folder issues and so that I don't have to re-write 9 programs (today)...
No problems with the executables really. It's just that Virtual Folders are getting created because I can't get the permissions to "take".
If I set permissions in I.S. using the permissions dialog, setting Full Control to "Everyone" the resulting permissions ( on the target "vista" machine) are:
For folders that DON'T contain .NET executables: (as I would expect) Everyone System
For folders that DO contain .NET executables: CREATOR OWNER SYSTEM Administrators Users (ComputerName\Users) Trusted Installer
