[BUG] It's impossible to uninstall, using a Standard User

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cinno
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[BUG] It's impossible to uninstall, using a Standard User

Post by cinno »

It's impossible to uninstall Virtual Box 3.0 when using a Vista's Standard User (not admin):
UAC asks me for the admin password, I type the password, the uninstallation process starts but, when it reaches the end, the uninstallation process is aborted (the msi's progress bar is emptied).
3.x version is affected, old versions 2.x were not affected
Last edited by cinno on 12. Jul 2009, 11:02, edited 1 time in total.
Entegy
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Re: [BUG] It's impossible to uninstall, using a Standard Account

Post by Entegy »

If you know an administrator's password, then there's nothing stopping you from logging into an admin's account and uninstalling it from there.
cinno
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Re: [BUG] It's impossible to uninstall, using a Standard User

Post by cinno »

a well designed software should allow to be installed and uninstalled with a Standard User via UAC elevation, without needing to be logged in the system with the administrator account.
Please follow the "Developer Best Practices and Guidelines for Applications in a Least Privileged Environment": http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa480150.aspx
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Re: [BUG] It's impossible to uninstall, using a Standard User

Post by Sasquatch »

That's a nice page you linked to, but you forget a thing. UAC is not perfect. There are still quite a lot of bugs in it and I consider your situation one of them. Did you test UAC privilege elevation with a 2.x.y release recently, or did your system change in the mean time, like Windows Updates etc.?
Read the Forum Posting Guide before opening a topic.
VirtualBox FAQ: Check this before asking questions.
Online User Manual: A must read if you want to know what we're talking about.
Howto: Install Linux Guest Additions
Howto: Use Shared Folders on Linux Guest
See the Tutorials and FAQ section at the top of the Forum for more guides.
Try searching the forums first with Google and add the site filter for this forum.
E.g. install guest additions site:forums.virtualbox.org

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