Q. Do people think that UAC exists just because an engineer in the back room
decided "it'd be funny to put it in to tick everyone off". XP had security
issues, so MS folks fixed these by putting in more security measures into
place.
So, you don't have to use UAC yet you chose to? You move programs out of the
program files directory because you need to get around the Security? Yet how
does one get access to the registry where this informations is located in
which you stored this application in outside the "progam files directory
firewall thingy" when you yourself couldn't bypass it to install it?
See where I'm going. Program Files are for the next, next, next, Finish
wizard users. It protects them from that darn spyware crap we all hated
inside XP. You've changed the playing field tonight Dale, as you've gone
"uhuh!, i'll move it outside of the default zone and hide it somewhere
else".
Protection is a funny thing :) We at times look at the Police whom pull us
over for speeding or whatever it may be and we go "I wish you'd go away!"
yet the moment we need them "I wish you were here".
Same logic applies with UAC.
You've come to the sad realisation that UAC may actually save you one day
{ACCEPT or DENY}.
On 4/12/07, Dale Fraser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Scott,
>
>
>
> Thanks for the offer, but we have a simple solution, although it's quite
> dumb and makes me wonder why MS introduced this change.
>
>
>
> If we install our application to C:\ABC\ rather than C:\Program Files\ABC
>
>
>
> Then we have no problems, data under ABC works, all users have access etc,
> etc. Makes me think others will take this simple fix and defeat the purpose
> of having a Program Files directory.
>
>
>
> The more complicated solutions that exist for Vista would not work on XP
> easily, this is an easy solution where one build of our software will work
> on both XP & Vista.
>
>
>
> Regards
> Dale Fraser
>
>
>
> http://dale.fraser.id.au/blog/
>
>
>
>
> ------------------------------
>
> *From:* [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] *On
> Behalf Of *Scott Barnes
> *Sent:* Thursday, 12 April 2007 9:51 PM
> *To:* [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> *Subject:* [cfaussie] Re: OT: Vista Application
>
>
>
> Hi Dale,
>
>
>
> Are you running the in question application as Administrator? In that the
> usual right-click run as approach (or in the services console, ensure System
> Administrator is being run).
>
>
>
> As although you as user have Administrator rights, you still need to force
> UAC to run it as Administrator anyway. Sounds like the application is having
> resolution problems around UAC.
>
>
>
> If you want to take this offline, I can work you through it or if I can't
> find the answer, I can grab some abled bodied MS Propella heads to help out
> in the platform space.
>
>
>
> -
>
> Scott Barnes
>
> Dale Evangelist
>
> Microsoft.
>
>
>
> On 4/11/07, *Dale Fraser* <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> This is off topic, but we develop a client server application, C++ client
> and CF server.
>
>
>
> Our program logs events and writes logs to disk and is having great
> problems under vista, something to do with Virtualization. Which as I
> understand it is something along the line of it sees our program writing
> files into a directory under the program files\program name\data\
>
>
>
> And says, you shouldn't do that I'll put it somewhere else (virtually) and
> everything kind of goes hay wire from there.
>
>
>
> What we really want is to have our installer give the application
> permission to run and store data in this directory with read and write
> access for all users.
>
>
>
> I've done a lot of searching, but hoping someone out there may have gone
> through this already and point us in the right direction.
>
>
>
> Regards
>
> Dale Fraser
>
>
>
> http://dale.fraser.id.au/blog
>
>
>
> <br
>
> >
>
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Regards,
Scott Barnes
http://www.mossyblog.com
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