[Bug 40613] Multiple applications require UAC implementation to run installer/app as a normal user instead of administrator (WhatsApp Desktop, Smartflix, Squirrel Installers, OneDrive)
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Sat Jun 19 11:22:50 CDT 2021
https://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=40613
--- Comment #41 from Zebediah Figura <z.figura12 at gmail.com> ---
(In reply to Zebediah Figura from comment #40)
> (In reply to Eivind Eide from comment #39)
> > (wine-staging 6.11 on Arch Linux current.)
> > After the patches went in I can now install Spotify with SpotifySetup.exe.
> > However there is a new problem:
> > Trying to update existing foobar2000 1.6.4 to 1.6.6 I get a "run as"
> > dialogue that wants me to log in as Administrator? This is how that looks:
> > https://imgur.com/8Hu2j56
> > https://imgur.com/TfzB0jd
> > And I can't get past that. I have no password for Administrator and the
> > update just dies...
> > Anybody who can share any information regarding this?
>
> If your prefix was created with upstream wine or with an older version of
> wine-staging, you'll need to modify the registry manually. Open regedit.exe,
> find the key
> HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\System,
> and change the value of EnableLUA from 0 to 1.
I've pushed an update to the relevant wine-staging patch that should make this
change automatic in the future.
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