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John Assymptoth
John Assymptoth

Reputation: 8507

Possible to make a Windows installer that asks nothing to the user?

I want my app to install invisibly, from the browser.

No "Do you want to save file", no "Do you want to run this file", nothing!

I've notice Google Chrome, when installed from IE, almost mimics this, but still has a few steps. Can I go further? What are good resources/ books on invisible install?

Edit: ClickOnce is this a viable option?

Upvotes: 2

Views: 97

Answers (1)

0xC0000022L
0xC0000022L

Reputation: 21309

What you ask is not really at all about Windows Installer or MSIs, but rather a shell (or more specifically UAC) issue.

Once you have gotten initial approval from the user it is indeed possible to go about updates quietly. However, UAC was at least invented to make some user decisions more obvious to the user (keep in mind that MS claims it not to be a security feature, though, anymore).

The only alternative route would be through exploits of privileged software that is already running on a user's system, which effectively is a shortcut of the "initial approval" described above. But that makes it even more obvious that something is wrong about the approach you are trying to use - which looks suspiciously akin to malware/spyware and the likes.

Upvotes: 3

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