----- Original Message ----- From: "Jan Dubois" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "'Sisyphus'" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "'perl-win32-users'" <perl-win32-users@listserv.ActiveState.com> Sent: Saturday, September 27, 2008 10:44 AM Subject: RE: [OT] patch.exe on Vista is unusable.
> On Wed, 24 Sep 2008, Sisyphus wrote: >> Despite the fact that this is a great and wondrous innovation on the >> part of Microsoft (I bet Linux wish they'd thought of it first), I >> would like to remove this behaviour. Anyone know how to do that ? > > I think I figured it out: In the policy editor open "Local Security > Policy", navigate to "Security Settings", "Local Policies", "Security > Options" and then deactivate the "User Account Control: Detect > application installations and prompt for elevation" policy. > Thanks for giving it more thought, Jan. (I'm starting to feel embarrased now at the effort you've gone to.) I got into "Local Policies" by first running secpol.msc as administrator, and then deactivated the control you mention, but nothing seems to have changed. I owe Jack an apology, too. If I run the cmd.exe console as Administrator I *can* run patch.exe fine, irrespective of whether the manifest file is present or not. (I had misunderstood Jack's advice.) I've also since discovered that I can run Cygwin's patch fine from within Cygwin's bash shell. So, at least I do have options for getting the job done. (It may be that the Cygwin bash shell is running with Administrator privileges.) Given that I don't need to run 'patch' all that often, I can probably make do with the workarounds that I've got at my disposal. After all, it's not a great imposition to open a cmd.exe shell as administrator. Still ... it's a damn strange thing to have come up against .... Thanks guys. Cheers, Rob _______________________________________________ Perl-Win32-Users mailing list Perl-Win32-Users@listserv.ActiveState.com To unsubscribe: http://listserv.ActiveState.com/mailman/mysubs
