Raising admin rights on Vista

[Neal Campbell]

One of the "less anticipated" side effects of Vista's protection of
the Programs Folder is that I now see some programs instructing users
to NOT choose the Program Files folder for the program installation.
For instance, use the root C drive directory, which means the program
can do all the things it used to be able to under XP. Completely
bypasses why M$ did the directory protection but I have seen it used
more than once!

Neal

On Mon, Sep 1, 2008 at 4:03 PM, Eric Chatonet
<eric.chatonet at sosmartsoftware.com> wrote:
> Finally, unless a wonderful idea shows up on the list, I am going to stick
> to my first idea:
> Running exe downloads a stack and this stack will download a regular
> installer, able to do the whole thing.
> Intermediate downloaded stack is there for easy maintenance only: its code
> may be changed or enhanced easily without having to make any change in any
> component of the exe itself.
> Thanks for all your ideas.
>
> Le 1 sept. 08 à 15:58, Trevor DeVore a écrit :
>
>> On Sep 1, 2008, at 9:26 AM, Eric Chatonet wrote:
>>
>>> Trevor,
>>>
>>> Actually your last point may be done with any installer :-)
>>
>> Right. But you said you already have an exe running and I'm not aware of
>> how you could elevate the privileges of an already running exe. This allows
>> you to run an exe elevated.
>>
>>> Using a Rev exe instead in the way you say could sound good but the
>>> problem, in such a case, is weight: I'll end with, at least a 2 MB exe :-(
>>
>> That is why I use a VBS file :-) I imagine it wouldn't be too much work to
>> write a command line application (not using Rev) that did what you need. The
>> footprint would be small.
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> --
>> Trevor DeVore
>> Blue Mango Learning Systems
>> www.bluemangolearning.com    -    www.screensteps.com
>
> Best regards from Paris,
> Eric Chatonet.
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