Installation Tips
Even well-written programs that don't require special privileges are usually installed by administrators. Let me say this another way, with emphasis: You must assume that your program will be run by one person and installed by another! This means that there's no point messing with per-user settings during an installation. For all you know, an administrator is setting up a machine for a new user who doesn't even have an account in the domain yet, let alone a user profile on the machine. So wait until your program is launched the first time to initialize per-user settings. Also consider that your program may be installed on a machine where more than one user normally logs in (think of the front desk at your company). Test for this! Use runas as a quick way to launch your app under different security contexts and ensure that it works properly.
Strive for a power user installation. Power Users is a special group granted read-write access to the Program Files directory tree. Unless you need to install an NT service or COM+ component, or put assemblies in the GAC, it's very likely that the person installing your software doesn't even need full admin privileges, which is a very good thing. When someone installs your app as a power user instead of an admin, she can rest assured that your installer won't be allowed to do nasty things such as overwrite parts of the operating system, install kernel-mode code like device drivers, which can do anything they want, and so forth. Even better would be an xcopy deploy that doesn't require any privilege at all, or a "no-touch" deployment over the network. Remember the principle of least privilege (Item 4) when designing your installer as well as your app!