Michael Meskes wrote: > On Wed, May 09, 2007 at 12:46:52PM +0100, Dave Page wrote: >> Oh, hang on... Vista's new 'security' features include popups that ask >> permission from the user before running any installers. One of the more >> basic checks they use is the filename - *anything* called setup.exe will >> cause user confirmation to be required before it will run. I believe for >> non-interactive sessions it'll just refuse to run. I just tried running >> update.exe myself, and yes, you guessed it, a user confirmation dialog >> popped up :-( > > Seems to be a little bit braindead to me.
Yeah - according to Microsoft we should include a manifest with the executable these days that can prevent the check by specifying that administrative privileges won't be needed by the executable - but that involves us adding version resources to the exe, and generating the manifest during build which seems somewhat over the top for a quick regression test. > But anyway, I renamed it and > just committed the changes. Let's see if this works. Thanks. > P.S.: More on the other problem later. OK. Regards, Dave. ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 1: if posting/reading through Usenet, please send an appropriate subscribe-nomail command to [EMAIL PROTECTED] so that your message can get through to the mailing list cleanly