Canon Kabushiki Kaisha

Tomoya Kobayakawa

Akira Nakamura

A method for controlling an information processing apparatus having an OS, capable of appropriately executing a process related to a program for executing an administrator authority requiring process. The method comprising: when receiving an operation from a predetermined account in a predetermined OS environment, executing a first process for installing a first program regardless whether the predetermined account is an administrator account or a non-administrator account; when receiving an operation from the predetermined account in an OS environment which is not the predetermined OS environment, executing a second process for activating a third program for installing a second program regardless whether the predetermined account is the administrator account or the non-administrator account; and executing a third process for installing the second program when the third program is activated and execution of an administrator authority requiring process is permitted.

Information processing apparatus that executes administrator authority requiring process, control method therefor, and storage medium

An information processing apparatus includes a printer driver and an application. The application stores push notification information in a region in a storage unit to which the printer driver is able to refer. In a case where the application is not currently installed in an execution environment of a target account and a display condition for the push notification information is satisfied, the printer driver causes a display unit to display a push notification based on the push notification information.

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Kanagawa, Japan

Tomoya Kobayakawa