[DUG] D2007 under Vista

[Myles Penlington]

John was actually right, Vista does look inside your program using
heuristics to determine if it is a installer type program, in which case
it will ask for UAC/Admin privileges etc.

It checks some bytes of the file, RC_DATA, resources, version info etc. 
Have you added a XP/Vista manifest to the program?

Why are you not just using a batch file to do the copy? 
Or you could install the power shell and do almost anything.

Myles.

-----Original Message-----
From: delphi-bounces at delphi.org.nz [mailto:delphi-bounces at delphi.org.nz]
On Behalf Of Alister Christie
Sent: Thursday, 28 August 2008 10:37 a.m.
To: NZ Borland Developers Group - Delphi List
Subject: Re: [DUG] D2007 under Vista

Another thing that keeps getting me unstuck is the virtual store.  
Depending if you are running as administrator or a user you could be 
looking at different files (even though you might be using an explicit 
path).  For example you could be looking at C:\FredUpdates\update.ini as

administrator, but c:\users\Fred\appdata\....\update.ini as Fred (if 
Fred has tried to change the ini file but does not have permission).  
This only applies to applications that don't "support Vista".  It 
doesn't sound like this is your problem however.

Alister Christie
Computers for People
Ph: 04 471 1849 Fax: 04 471 1266
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Wellington 



Myles Penlington wrote:
> I should clarify that, you are not actually running as a real
> "Administrator" until after you have been through the UAC prompt. 
>
> Prior to the UAC prompt appearing you are actually running as a
standard
> user (you have no administrator rights/privileges), no different to
> anybody else, once you have been through the UAC, you then have
> administrator rights and privileges(for that process only).
>
> One way of testing if it is all a result of UAC would be to switch it
> off (or right click on BDs2007 and select run as administrator -
should
> have the same effect), run your tests/programs and see if they
function
> as expected, without issues.
>
> Myles.
>

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