[Installation silently fails with runas Administrator]

And, XP support is just not something that will be improved from here on out. Even if I were to consider this a bug worth fixing*, I couldn't justify fixing it from a cost or strategy standpoint.

* Not to imply that the opposite judgement has been made.

Currently, XP has a two third market share, so for a user-oriented project XP should be the number one target.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Windows

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usage_shar ... ng_systems

But, coming from a Java background, I don't understand the problem. Supporting an OS should be the concern of the VM, not of the application.

[Installation silently fails with runas Administrator]

"Run as" isn't a common scenario in XP. It's not supported; no testing is ever done in that mode.

Well, it's frivolous to run XP with Administrator rights, and no firm with a responsible IT management lets users have admin rights, so at least in enterprises the scenario is the norm.

[Installation silently fails with runas Administrator]

For security reasons I use XP with a non-Admin user and do runas Administrator for installations and admin.

When I tried to install Paint.NET.3.5.1 using runas Administrator, the installer unpacked its files to a temp folder, deleted them again and then exited without any message.

These seem to be the same symptoms as in http://paintdotnet.forumer.com/viewtopic.php?f=10&t=32643.

Only when I logged into the computer with an Administrator account (not runas) the install worked.

So there seems to be a bug in the installer ...

Thanks,

Juergen