How to remove write permission of file using msi installer?

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Iam using visual studio setup project (msi installer). How to remove write permission to c drive programefiles? How to implement file permission step by step in msi installer?

What I have tried:

I tried cacls to remove file permission.

Posted 21-Jun-16 18:53pm

Rahul s menon

Updated 21-Jun-16 19:35pm

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Mehdi Gholam 22-Jun-16 1:05am

Why are you insisting on this way?
http://www.codeproject.com/Questions/1107323/How-remove-administrative-privilege-of-msi-install

Rahul s menon 22-Jun-16 1:14am

I need to rename exe of application for update functionality. That reason why i need permission on c programe file to write.

Mehdi Gholam 22-Jun-16 1:16am

Why? usually you overwrite it.

Rahul s menon 22-Jun-16 1:22am

Perform auto update functionality. So i need that. Form my research it can be done using calcs,icacls but how to implement this in msi installer

Mehdi Gholam 22-Jun-16 1:26am

msi files are installers and overwrite what is there.

Autoupdate only makes sense if the exe is initiator of the update (and you don't use msi in that context).

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Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov · Answer 1 · 2016-06-21T19:35:00

It's a matter of using proper installation toolkit. For Microsoft OS, the most legitimate and reasonable is WiX; in this product, this is a standard element:
Permission Element,
see also: WiX — Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia,
WiX Toolset.

However, you should not touch the Program Files directory. This is not a legitimate action for an installer.

—SA