Vista/Win7 priveleges

[Joe F.]

I just had to deal with something like this in a standalone I created  
for a guy running it in Vista.

Apparently there's a difference depending on where the app is  
installed. I put mine in Program Files on his c drive.
Even though he's the only user on the computer and has admin  
privileges, my Rev app wasn't writing text files to disk in its own  
directory.

No error, nothing to indicate it wasn't working.

The fix was to right click my app and set its properties to "run as  
administrator".
Evidently, even though he has admin permissions, an app he launches  
has to be specifically set to run as administrator in order to write  
to a file outside his own Documents folder.

I was lucky to find the solution pretty quickly and thus didn't have  
to study it very much; so there may be (probably is) a lot more to it  
than that. But it worked, and I was happy.

Joe F.

On Jan 22, 2010, at 3:47 PM, Jim Bufalini wrote:

> Jacque wrote:
>
>> My client wants that auto-run checkbox because his customer base
>> is largely computer illiterate. Many don't know how to start an app
>> without it.
>>
>> (Makes me wish you had to get some kind of license to run a  
>> computer.)
>
> Well, if they are that illiterate, you may want to consider starting  
> your
> splash screen (if on Vista) with a message that says something to  
> the effect
> of, *Please click "Allow" for any permissions your computer may  
> request.*
> Because if they click Deny, your program will never run on that  
> computer
> until it is removed from the blocked list. And, if they don't know  
> how to
> run a program, they certainly won't know how to do this.
>
> When I say Vista blocks the program from running, it actually lets the
> program load. But, before the program can "do" anything like access  
> the
> local hard drives, the dialog is presented. Also, let's say your  
> program
> does attempt to access the Internet or ports at some point, there  
> could be a
> second dialog presented.
>
> So, for example, in one app I have, I do exactly this. When the  
> program
> first launches, I throw up a splash message telling them to click  
> Allow to
> any requests and then write a little text file and then make an  
> unnecessary
> and arbitrary request to the Internet. These two actions are just to  
> "force"
> any possible dialogs from Vista. When I get past the Internet  
> request, I
> take down the message. ;-)
>
> Aloha from Hawaii,
>
> Jim Bufalini
>
>
>
>
>
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