The Old New Thing

Why didn't Windows XP auto-elevate programs beyond those named setup.exe?

July 26, 2010 Jul 26, 2010 07/26/10

Raymond Chen

Commenter J-F has a friend who wonders why Windows XP didn't auto-elevate all installers but rather only the ones named setup.exe. (Perhaps that friend's name is Josh, who repeated the question twelve days later.) Remember what the starting point was. In Windows 2000, nothing was auto-elevated. Before adding a feature, you have ...