ah, cool. Here's a couple of links from a search for more info: http://channel9.msdn.com/Showpost.aspx?postid=211271 http://channel9.msdn.com/Showpost.aspx?postid=209647 http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=463884&SiteID=1
I think it should be fairly straight forward... but I can't seem to find out to actually add the manifest to an exe. Do you know how to add a manifest to an exe? cheers, On Feb 16, 2008 11:29 AM, Brian Fisher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Vista if a program doesn't have a "manifest" that tells Vista > whether it wants to ask for permissions or not, the default behavior > is for Vista to let it think that it is writing and doing a bunch of > things that would affect all users on XP, but virtualize them in a way > that is per user (and can be lost or wiped as well). The manifest can > tell the OS to either ask for elevation of privilege to let it do > things for all users (the trust box), or to have the app run with > whatever it can get, or to have the app run without special prvileges. > > It sounds like maybe the install has a manifest, but the manifest is > set to not ask to elevate. > > manifests can be modified/added/deleted from finished built exe's as > long as the exe isn't signed, so if you wanted to play around with the > manifest settings you could. > > > On Fri, Feb 15, 2008 at 4:17 PM, René Dudfield <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > - the pygame installer brings up a bunch of messages about things it can't > > do... but then manages to install ok. I think it's trying to do things like > > set registry keys, but vista is blocking it. I think this is more the fault > > of the distutils install maker. Anyone know about changes needed for vista > > installers? For most installers vista pops up a message about "do you trust > > this installer". This doesn't happen for the pygame one... so maybe we have > > to ask vista for permission. > > >
