Run msi installation package on Vista as Administrator
By ganton ~ July 29th, 2008. Filed under: Vista.
Today, I ran into a problem with an application which I tried to install on my Vista. I had only msi file and I started it but during the installation I received a warning message that installation directory cannot be accessed. It was connected with installation package rights. The msi required an Administration rights in order to properly install contained application. It sounds reasonable but we cannot go to msi file context menu and run it as an Administrator. Then I remembered that in the past I had similar problem and I found a solution somewhere in the net. Today I’ve tried to find it again just to note it here but I wasn’t able to find it. The solution is to right a bat file which allows to run it as Administrator using file context menu option. In the bat file I just wrote the path to the msi and save it. Next I ran it with Administration rights and all went fine.
Here is bath file content.
d:\downloads\installation_name.msi