Windows 'run as administrator' property of standalone

[David Glasgow]

On 3 Feb 2010, at 6:00 pm, Bernard Devlin wrote:

> On Wed, Feb 3, 2010 at 9:59 AM, David Glasgow
> <david at dvglasgow.wanadoo.co.uk> wrote:
>> I was wondering whether setting this before distribution might reduce the occasional permissions problems which arise.  I was also slightly worried that user levels can apparently be so readily overridden by an executable, and also that there may be unforeseen (by me) adverse consequences if I set this flag before distribution.
> 
> Hi David
> 
> On Vista always have to run Valentina Studio with "run as
> administrator" or I get errors.
> 
> I would be surprised if you choosing to set such a flag on an
> executable would result in that information being carried over when
> the executable is copied to another system.
> 
> Bernard

Bernard,

Just experimented, and you are dead right.  The flag becomes unset.  Unfortunately I can't work out what is going on, because I have XP and Vista, and the former doesn't report that property.  Nevertheless, setting it on Vista, then creating an install on XP and installing back on Vista loses the flag somewhere along the way.  Darn it.  It just doesn't seem very professional when you ask people to start twiddling within Vistas under-garments.....

David G