The Single Package Authoring features of Windows Installer 5.0 can facilitate the development of Per-User Applications. An application capable of being installed, updated, run, and removed by a standard user without elevation is called a Per-User Application (PUA.) A PUA can provide a better user experience, minimize effects on the system and other users of the computer, and reserves UAC prompting to situations that actually require the elevation of the user's privileges. The internal consistency evaluator ICE105 checks that the package has been authored to be installed in a per-user context. For more information, see Single Package Authoring. Setup developers can use Windows Installer 5.0 to author a single installation package capable of either per-machine installation or per-user installation of the application.
This page is provided as a guide to the documentation. For a complete list of Windows Installer versions, see Released Versions of Windows Installer. For a list of redistributables available for previous versions of Windows Installer, see Windows Installer Redistributables. There is no redistributable for Windows Installer 5.0.