How remove “administrative privilege” of msi installer using post script?

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I am create msi installer for my winform project . my application is installed on the path C:\Program Files (x86)\Dashboard. But does not permission to write a file into this folder, how can i implement post script in msi installer to this solution?

What I have tried:

I create some custom action in my setup project.

Posted 17-Jun-16 1:15am

Rahul s menon

Updated 17-Jun-16 5:21am

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Nathan Minier 17-Jun-16 8:28am

Are you making sure that the directory in question exists before you try copying files into it?

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Mehdi Gholam · Accepted Answer · 2016-06-17T05:21:00

The "Program Files" folder is protected by windows, and the guideline is that you are not supposed to write user data to that folder.

If you need to write data user the user accessible folders like :

C:\Users\name\AppData\Roaming
C:\Users\name\AppData\Local

With c#:

C#

Environment.SpecialFolder.ApplicationData
Environment.SpecialFolder.LocalApplicationData
Environment.SpecialFolder.MyDocuments