For my C# app, I don't want to always prompt for elevation on application start, but if they choose an output path that is UAC protected then I need to request elevation. So, how do I check if a path is UAC protected and then how do I request elevation mid-execution? Thanks. ...
I have a shortcut on my desktop which opens a command prompt with many arguments that I need. I set the 'start in' field to d:\ and it works as expected (the prompt starts in d:). When I choose Advanced -> run as administrator and then open the shortcut, it starts in C:\Windows\System32, even though I have not changed the 'start in' fi...
I'm trying to find out if there is any way to elevate a specific function within an application. For example, I have an app with system and user settings that are stored in the registry, I only need elevation for when the system settings need to be changed. Unfortunately all of the info I've come across talks about only starting a new ...
I need my application to behave differently depending on whether Vista UAC is enabled or not. How can my application detect the state of UAC on the user's computer? ...
My Vista application needs to know whether the user has launched it "as administrator" (elevated) or as a standard user (non-elevated). How can I detect that at run time? ...
I run Vista (business x32) on my work machine, in which I do ASP.NET development. Because I use IIS to server the sites I build (I do a lot of CMS integrations so I need to use IIS not the inbuilt web development server) I always need to attach to w3wp for debugging. The problem is that w3wp requires elevated permissions for me to conne...
I've found an article on how to elevate a COM object written in C++ by calling CoCreateInstanceAsAdmin. But what I have not been able to find or do, is a way to implement a component of my .NET (c#) application as a COM object and then call into that object to execute the tasks which need UAC elevation. MSDN documents this as the admin ...
I didn't upgrade to Vista until May or so and one of the things I've always heard developers I know in real life say is "first thing you should do is turn off that UAC crap" Well, I've left it on this whole time for a few reasons. First, just as a failsafe in case I do something idiotic like have a momentary lapse of reason and run an a...
I want my Python script to copy files on Vista. When I run it from a normal cmd.exe window, no errors are generated, yet the files are NOT copied. If I run cmd.exe "as administator" and then run my script, it works fine. This makes sense since UAC normally prevents many file system actions. Is there a way I can, from within a Python ...
I have an application that I have to run as Administrator. One small part of that application is to start other applications with Process.Start The started applications will also be run as administrators, but I'd rather see them run as the 'normal' user. How do I accomplish that? /johan/ ...
Summary Client (Windows XP SP3) Server (Windows Vista Business SP1) / Running as LocalSystem Service Api Sequence Client - AcquireCredentialsHandle Client - Initializesecuritycontext Server - Acquirecredentialshandle Server - AcceptSecurityContext Client/Server - CompleteAuthnToken Server - ImpersonateSecurityContext Server - ...
I have a console application that require to use some code that need administrator level. I have read that I need to add a Manifest file myprogram.exe.manifest that look like that : <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="yes"?> <assembly xmlns="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:asm.v1" manifestVersion="1.0"> <trustInfo xmlns="urn:sc...
I think the title says it all. How can my vbscript detect whether or not it is running in a UAC elevated context? I have no problem detecting the user, and seeing if the user is within the Administrators group. But this still doesn't answer the question of whether the process has elevated privs or not, when running under Vista or Window...
We have an application that needs to know the path that it is executed from (which is always a network path). We set up part of our configuration based on the path that the application is launched from, and we really want that configuration to use mapped network drive paths instead of the UNC path to the resource. What we've found is t...
I have a program that needs to run as a normal user most of the time once in a while I need to stop and start a service. How do I go about making a program that runs as a normal user most of the time but elevates into administrator mode for some function. ...
I need to write some registration data (unique computer number, and corresponding activation code). The Computer Number needs to be visible from other programs and all accounts ({Admin|Non Admin} with User Access Control turned {On|Off} ) It's acceptable to write the Computer Number and Activation Code only from an Admin account, but i...
Here is the question: Can TortoiseSvn work on Windows 2008 without turning off User Account Control? Here is the story: I just moved my test server to Windows 2008 and I am having problems with TortoiseSvn. I am logged on as an administrator, but when I go to update some code from the Subversion repository, I get a message saying: ...
We have been having serious trouble getting an application we devlop running with UAC enabled for long. Once installed (the installer fails almost immediately with UAC) it appears that UAC can be turned on and have the application work. However, after a while, it will stop working with strange errors about cannot find a file that it jus...
I have a CustomAction as part of an MSI. It MUST run as a domain account that is also a member of the local Administrators account. It can't use the NoImpersonate flag to run the custom action as NT Authority\System as it will not then get access to network resources. On Vista/2008 with UAC enabled if NoImpersonate is off then it will...
I want to create an MSI in WiX such that it can take a command line parameter to indicate whether it is a per-machine or per-user installation and consequently whether to raise a UAC dialog. What is the best way to accomplish this? ...