I have made an installer using izpack which is packaged as an executable jar file. Normally when I double click the jar/installer file the windows 7 UAC box pops up and I grant temporary administrator rights when installing the application (my UAC level is second lowest). But for some reason this box no longer pops up when I double cli...
I am trying to use WCF to do some remote user management things. I and reusing some code I had on a server 2003 box and worked fine, but on my windows 7 test box when I check to see if the user who called the function is administrator it says it is not. [OperationBehavior(Impersonation=ImpersonationOption.Required)] public string SetPas...
I have a client-side app that downloads a Nullsoft installer from the server and runs the installer as an external process with verb set to "runas". Nullsoft installer also has a line in the script that requests elevated privileges. On Windows 7, this works sometimes -- Windows displays the UAC dialog, clicking ok allows the installer to...
I have a set of NetTCP services configured that run under a Windows service for production but I use a console app to spin them up for debugging purposes. With Windows Vista I disabled UAC outright because it was annoying, however I'm trying to leave it enabled with 7 because it does everything I want while being very quiet and not naggy...
Hi I need to start an elevated interactive program on startup and prevent UAC to pop-up that runs as a tray icon. I want the program to start regardless to which user logs on. I tried configuring the task scheduler but when running the task as SYSTEM the program is not run interactively. I cannot run it as a specific user as the admin ...
I am trying to run programs from another .NET program that requires elevation using the impersonation option of the Process.Start (System.Diagnostics) method. The user for impersonation is a local administrator. The O/S is 2008 and UAC is turned on. Whenever calling process start I'm getting a Win32 permission error: "The requested ope...
I am looking for some resources for developing .NET apps for Windows Vista/7. What are the challenges? Are there resources on dealing with UAC? What about upgrading a large enterprise XP application? We have a large WinForms application written in C# with the .NET 2.0 framework. We are tasked with getting this application to run on Win...
I have an application (Windows service) that is installed into a directory in the Program Files folder. Alongside this application is another WinForms application that is used to configure the service (amongst other things). When it does configuration, it saves changes to a config file that lives alongside the service. When running on V...
Hi My program running as an elevated process, and starting new processes with Process.Start(). For security reasons, I would like to run those new processes as non-elevated. How to do that? ...
Lets say that i open 1.bat which opens 2.bat i want the 3.bat to open with rights of the user current logged in and doesn't prompt for password Edit:i forgot to tell that 1.bat runs under system ...
Hi I want to store some files and edit them for my software in Common Application Data under windows 7 , I do not know why Windows 7 do not allow My software tho change files unless I run as administrator . where can I store my files , so I will not require Admin Permission ? regards ...
Application2 was orginally developed an application for WinXP. Now I have to contend with User Account Control (UAC) on Win7. The Application2 runs fine on Win7 as long as the user is logged into an Administrator account and they select "Run as administrator." However, I am trying to evaluate whether it is possible to refractor Applic...
I am writing an HTTP server in C#. When I try to execute the function HttpListener.Start() I get an HttpListenerException saying "Access Denied". When I run the app in admin mode in windows 7 it works fine. Can I make it run without admin mode? if yes how? If not how can I make the app change to admin mode after start running? thanks...
I have a program which writes to the HKCU registry key during startup. Does this require administrator privileges in Vista and Win7? ...
I already know how to create shortcuts programmatically from my C# applications using IWshRuntimeLibrary and WshShellClass. Or I could use IShellLink. Now, if the user's PC is running Windows Vista or Windows 7, I would like to be able to set the "Run as administrator" property of that shortcut programmactically as well. Is that possi...
I'm trying to document a work flow with a series of screen shots. At one point in the flow, a UAC prompt appears, and I'd like to grab a bitmap of it to make my storyboard complete. Because UAC prompts are on a virtual desktop (or something like that), the usual Alt+PrintScreen doesn't work. Any suggestions? ...
We have an application suite that we update via a homegrown "Auto Update" application. This application basically connects to our "Updates server" and downloads files to overwrite, update, or even add new features/applications to our application suite. However, this does not work well with UAC. Our Auto Update application is a command...
sorry : with "run as admin" the debug DebugPrivilege is on or off ...