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    nsis: request admin execution level · 952646bb
    Ludovic Fauvet authored
    The current state of our NSIS installer doesn't support per-user
    installation and needs a major rework to do so, therefore the user
    is required to have admin privileges to install VLC.
    
    Still, RequestExecutionLevel was set to 'user' to be able to drop
    privileges when launching vlc.exe at the end of the installation but
    this was improved since (90496f23) and
    confirmed by the accesschk tool.
    
    However requesting user execution level makes the unpacking occurs
    twice: once with the user level and once after elevation.
    
    Requesting admin permissions fixes the unpacking issue while still being
    safe when launching VLC after the installation on XP and above.
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