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problems with installing Foxmarks for IE

Hi!

I tried to install Foxmarks for IE (ver. 0.9.67) on an MS Windows XP
Professional SP3. (I also use Foxmarks with Firefox 3.0).

As Win XP is a multi-user system, and for security reasons (viruses
etc.), I login to it as a user with limited user rights (i.e. who is
member of the Users local security group only) when doing my usual job
in Windows. I use the Windows administrator account only when
installing software and doing other administrative tasks.

So, after downloading foxmarks-installer-for-ie-0.9.67.msi I run it as
the administrator. I saw that it installed itself to a directory in
"C:\Program Files\Foxmarks\IE Extension", which was fine.

When the Foxmarks Setup Wizard started, I canceled it as I would not
use it as the administrator.

I also saw that the installation created some shortcuts in
"C:\Documents and Settings\Administrator\Start Menu\Programs\Foxmarks\"
(i.e. in the administrator's profile directory).
That's bad because those shortcuts would not be accessible by other
users of the system. Instead the shortcuts should be created in
"C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Start Menu\Programs\Foxmarks\"
(i.e. in the profile accessible for all users).

So I copied (not moved) the shortcuts to the right place.

Then I logged in with my limited user account and run Foxmarks to set
it up. Here I noticed that the icon of the Foxmarks Favorites
Synchronizer in the Start Menu was not shown correctly because the
icon was taken from the following file:
C:\Documents and Settings\Administrator\Application Data\Microsoft\Installer\{F475B92D-69A1-4642-B580-C6F8F29BAA61}\MainIcon.ico
which is not accessible by a limited user account (icon file is in the
administrator's profile).
Instead the icon should be taken from the executable:
"C:\Program Files\Foxmarks\IE Extension\foxmarkssync.exe".

Please fix the Foxmarks installer for IE so that it
works correctly in the multi-user Windows environments.

Regards,

-- rpr. /Robert Premuž/
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