Cosmin Prund wrote: "If someone downloads my setup.exe to a Windows Vista machine the application's icon is displayed with a small shield over the icon. If the user starts the application they get an message saying the application is not signed etc."
It's normal Vista security practice to query any executable that it doesn't recognize. If it's an installation program, it should normally ask if you want to go ahead. If you approve, then after installation, the installed program should run normally **providing** you have obeyed all the new rules for programs under Vista. If non-administrative users are to run the program, all the rights and permissions must be set either by the setup program or manually via the security pages with the Windows Explorer. For a starter see: http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa480150.aspx Most Delphi programs will require some rewriting, and some may need total revision. Another problem which arose as of the last time I installed my Delphi apps under Vista Ultimate RTM Build 6000 in early January was that Vista does not support winhelp32.exe under Vista. If you try , you are redirected to an MS site which says that a replacement will be available for the consumer release in 2007. It's not available as of this writing. In the meantime, a patch has been posted on the Internet for dealing with this problem until and if MS releases something: http://thevistaforums.com/index.php?showtopic=5089&hl=winhlp32\.exe In my experience, this deals with the problem for the moment. After reading the text on Bob Swart's web site, I haven't attempted to install Delphi 7 under Vista either. I won't attempt it with Delphi 10 either, unless I hear something to the contrary. In my view, Vista is a "Can of New Worms" for the moment. I am still trying to prevent it from zapping the Nvidia RAID bios on my server if I attempt to install either the 64 bit or the 32 bit version, but that's not a topic for this list. Irwin Scollar _______________________________________________ Delphi mailing list -> [email protected] http://www.elists.org/mailman/listinfo/delphi
