Adding manifest for admin rights request

Question

I have an application that writes program settings to the windows registry that is absolutely necessary so.storing to a file is not an option.

To simplify this, I wo

Answer 1

I already commented that "Writing program settings to the registry is not a proper cause to give your application admin privileges". However it is a good idea to include a UAC manifest in any case. the common requestedExecutionLevel should be level="asInvoker". see the docs

"Q: Adding manifest for admin rights request for delphi 7"

Create the below 4 files (2 sets):

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(UAC Only)

uac.manifest

uac.rc

1 24 "uac.manifest"

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(UAC + XP Themes)

uac_xp.manifest

uac_xp.rc

1 24 "uac_xp.manifest"

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Add the desired rc file (uac.rc or uac_xp.rc) to your project via the "Project > Add to project" menu item. This will create the {$R} directive in your project file:

program Project1;

{.$R 'uac.res' 'uac.rc'} // UAC only
// OR
{$R 'uac_xp.res' 'uac_xp.rc'} // UAC + XP Themes

uses
  Forms,
  Unit1 in 'Unit1.pas' {Form1};

{$R *.RES}

begin
  Application.Initialize;
  Application.CreateForm(TForm1, Form1);
  Application.Run;
end.

Note the {$R 'uac_xp.res' 'uac_xp.rc'}. Delphi will auto compile the rc to res file.

Alternatively you can compile the rc file via brcc32 uac.rc outside Delphi IDE. and then add {$R 'uac_xp.res'} manually to your project.

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Make sure you don't use any other XP manifest.