[DUG] IPC with an elevated program

[Kyley Harris]

I just use TCPIP for everything.. then it doesn't matter where the stuff is
residing and its as simple as you can get for communicating.

On Tue, Jan 19, 2010 at 2:13 AM, Ross Levis <ross at stationplaylist.com>wrote:

>  This is not strictly Delphi related but hope someone can help.
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> Since Vista came out I’ve been using a small program I wrote with a
> manifest to give it elevated privileges, so I can write to the HKLM registry
> when requested by any of my applications.  I use a shared memory component
> (memory mapped file with no file) to communicate between an app and the
> small program which is loaded when required.
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> But since Vista SP1 or SP2, Microsoft appears to be preventing shared
> memory access between an app with standard privileges and one with
> elevated.  I’ve been wondering why some users have been reporting odd
> problems and this appears to be it.
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> So it appears I need an alternative method.  I could use the elevated DLL
> method, but this seems complicated.  I’m not an advanced programmer.  It’s a
> bugger as I spent quite a bit of time getting this working well when Vista
> first came out.  I would prefer to continue using the small app, but it
> appears I need some other method for sharing text between 2 processes of
> different elevations.  Does anyone know if this is possible?
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> I’ve heard that even PostMessage and SendMessage from a standard to
> elevated program does not work anymore.
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> Thanks,
>
> Ross.
>
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Kyley Harris
Harris Software
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