Weird 1.2.0 installer/ 1.1 to 1.2 update

[Phat Looser]

The 1.2.0 installer asks me to log in as "Administrator", even though there is only ONE user on my laptop which only has elevated rights if asked for it.

That means instead of auto-installing the stuff like it used to, it never asked for elevated rights, tried to log me in as a user that doesn't exists, and failed hard at installing.

I needed to re-download the file with firefox and to start it "with elevated rights" for it to be working.

Thats a bit weird, I am used to be pampered by the MTA update a little more.

Also, since the 1.1.0 resources and the 1.2.0 resources aren't BANGING different any more, can you copy the resource folder for future updates?

That saves many people a big download.

[Towncivilian]

I believe the installer has required administrator rights for a few major versions now. What version of Windows are you running?

I don't know the answer to your resources question.

[Phat Looser]

Lets explain it this way:

Previous versions:

The Microsoft ® Windows ® ® ® "elevated rights" window appeared.

This version:

A (homemade?) window appears asking you to "log in as user 'administrator'". At least for me (Windows ® 7 Homo Edition).

As soon as I got rid of my fever I'll post useful screenshots.

[Phat Looser]

Thats what I was talking about.

If I choose "STAUDE\Adolf", it doesn't work, and there is no "administrator" on my gamer laptop (why should I have one?)

[Towncivilian]

That is XP's "run as" command - it allows you to run a program as another user. If your user account is already an Administrator, there is no purpose in using that option.

[Phat Looser]

Its Windows 7's "run as" window, and the account is no administrator, also, there is no real administrator account on that computer.

[eAi]

Windows always has an administrator account.

This may be helpful, I'm not sure: http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/windows- ... ows-vista/

[Phat Looser]

By "no real administrator" I mean:

I need to run stuff with elevated rights before it has admin access.

When I auto-update MTA it doesn't start elevated, so I need to stop it and start it again.

An account named "administrator" does not exist, and there is only one account, which happens to be "Adolf".

But to start administrative tasks on that account, I need to accept the Windows-Sudo-Window A.K.A "Benutzerkontensteuerung".

Nuff said:

1) there is only one account.

2) this account CAN have admin rights, but without right elevation I can't do shit.

2.1) MTA can be installed on that account with elevated rights. The Auto-Updater doesn't elevate.

3) MTA does not start with elevated rights, finds out it can't do shit and asks me for a different account, even though the one account is already registered as admin. It doesn't even try to elevate.

[jhxp]

I had a similar issue in the past - you might want to check if you have your 'User Account Control: Run all administrators in Admin Approval Mode' option enabled.

Not sure how is it called in German, but you can find some instructions on how to change it here:

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/libr ... 9691(WS.10).aspx#BKMK_S1

("To disable Admin Approval Mode" section; note that you need to have it enabled for the MTA UAC thing to work correctly).