> XPman from an app, or buttons and toolbars may lose their colors. Do you mean that XPMan is not compatible with Vista?
_____________ Irwin Scollar wrote: > In my last posting, I forgot to mention that one should remove the > XPman from an app, or buttons and toolbars may lose their colors. > Remove both the button from the form and entry in the Uses statement. > Put the manifest (an XML file ) in app.exe.manifest, where app is the > name of the program and distribute that in the installation. When the > program runs for the first time, delete the manifest file if you > detect anything other than XP. It that is not elegant, then > distribute a small command line program which the installer runs and > delete it before the first start. Code on request. > > CubicDesign wrote: > > >80-90% of my users are running under limited accounts. > > That's very sensible, considering the malware risks of today. > > >I never used an installer, just because of the 'admin rights' problem. > I> never stored information in registry, also because of the 'admin' problem. > > Installers are harmless if they put their things in a file called > setup.exe which appears to be permitted by Vista. If run as an > administrator, one can put things in parts of the registry other than > CURRENT_USER so that they apply to all users. > > There are some advantages in using CURRENT_USER for storing harmless > things like the last working directory or other parameters if there > are multiple users on the machine. Vista doesn't object to this even > from non-administrative users. It's equivalent to an ini file on the > user's documents and settings. > > >I installed the software on C:\xxx also because of the 'admin' problem. > >I even succeed to make a hardware based trial version (with hidden keys > >and files) without having problems on limited accounts. > >So my program was 'Ready for Windows XP' users with limited rights. > > Putting programs or data on the C: drive can cause problems if not > done with care. It's much better to use a separate program partition > whose rights can be set appropriately. Shrinking the C: drive down to > 8 GB is enough for XP and 32 GB is enough even for Vista Ultimate and > still leave space for defragmenting operations. > > I try to encourage my users to have C: only for the OS and OS-related > programs, another partition for programs which they or others > install, and one or more additional partitions for data. I also > encourage them to have a second hard disk which is a copy of the > first made with a disk imager. Unhappily, few listen to this advice. > > Bob Swart wrote: > > I expect problems with the remote debugger,.... > > Does this apply to Delphi 5 or to any version of Delphi? Can one run > the remote debugger on a Vista x64 system with a Delphi 7 client on > an XP x32 system? > > Irwin Scollar > > _______________________________________________ > Delphi mailing list -> [email protected] > http://www.elists.org/mailman/listinfo/delphi > > _______________________________________________ Delphi mailing list -> [email protected] http://www.elists.org/mailman/listinfo/delphi
