Jason on December 21, 2006 05:30 sez:

Sorry, I find nothing more irritating than an installer that wants to show me a readme file and start the application immediately. In most cases the installer just asked me where I would like icons in the Start, Programs menu so I know where to find it when I'm ready.

Also, it's been a while since I looked at security for starting new processes but I thought going to elevated privileges created a new security token but reducing privileges just used the same token with certain parts disabled. As a result there was a possibility for hijacking the demoted token to get back the elevated privileges. But maybe I'm wrong, it was a while ago.

Mark on December 21, 2006 08:06 sez:

I also don't like to launch programs from the installer. That just means I will need to hunt for the program the *second* time that I launch it. Which might be several days later when I can't remember that the shortcut is under the company name XXX instead of the program name.

However, that didn't stop me from adding the launch now option in the installer for my application...... :-)

I have already wished that I did not add this option. Many of my clients use terminal services. When my application runs from the install it is still in the terminal server "install" mode. This causes per user registry entries that are created during the first run to be copied to the shadow key. There is nothing that will break an application faster then trying to access files in a different user's profile.

ViperWorm on January 14, 2007 03:03 sez:

Well in my opinion there's nothing bad to excluding the RUN NOW button BUT they should put a substitute button that would, upon clicking on it, open the folder you just used as the installation folder and then you could easily select the .exe file and run it...

Of course I am not a programmer so I don't really know how Vista works but my idea sounds pretty reasonable to me. Take care ^^