[DUG] Delphi programs and Vista

[John Bird]

Same for me-  there is just one program that gets UAC.  It does not write to 
registry or program files.  It does have Start in the name, but thats not 
it - because if renamed it still gets UAC prompt.   It does however copy 
programs from a download folder into a working folder, so I agree with 
whoever said Vista looks at some heuristics inside the program - does anyone 
have a specific link for reading more?  (Haven't found specific programmers 
guide yet)

John

>
> Just about all of my programs that used to run fine on XP also run fine in
> Vista, look a bit prettier and don't generate UAC prompts.
>
> I'm guessing that your problem might lie in the way that you read the
> registry.  If you need to read something from HKLM, make sure that you 
> open
> the registry as read-only.  A TRegIniFile and other similar abstractions 
> of
> the registry will (by default) want write access and cause a UAC prompt. 
> If
> you only want to read values, make sure that you only ever open those keys
> in the registry by explicitly specifying that you only want read access 
> and
> your UAC prompts (might) go away.
>
> Trevor
>