UAC Elevation for MSI Packages

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It has been serveral times now, that I tried to install an MSI package and occurred some strange error! The reason for this... yes Vista User Account Control!
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Unfortunately MSI Packages do not elevate automatically, and it's also hard to elevate them by hand (there is no Run As Administrator menu or anything else..)

So I thought of ways, how to elevate MSI packages..

The easiest way, open up an elevated command prompt and run

MSIEXEC /i myMSI.msi

The problem.. I'm a lazy guy! This is much too hard for me :-)

So I found another way: Just create you custom elevation Context-Menu:

To do this, you need to open regedit, and create a new key under HKEY_Classes_Root\Msi.Package\shell\ .

I called this key RunAs. Select the key and set its default value to the title of the context menu (like "Install &as administrator").

Create a subkey HKEY_Classes_Root\Msi.Package\shell\RunAs\command and set its default value to msiexec /i "%1" !

Voila!

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