elevation

I used the application manifest file as described here to have a part of my application running with elevated privileges (which it needs). So when needed, the main program just invokes a small assembly using Process.Start which then handles the task for which admin rights are required. However, how can I do the same thing on Windows XP? It seems XP just ignores this manifest and runs the small assembly in the current user context. Marc The following code from here does just what I need: ProcessStartInfo processStartInfo = new ProcessStartInfo("path", "args"); processStartInfo.Verb = "runas";

I have a program that I'd to run when the computer starts. I've put its path inside "SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run". This is in Windows 7. When the computer starts nothing happens. I'm thinking this is because the program needs elevation when I run it. But Windows does not ask for permission to elevate and gives no feedback. It simply ignores it. I've read that Vista tells you that the program was blocked etc. Does anybody have any idea why Windows 7 simply ignores the application? Thank you very much in advance. Alireza Windows Vista and 7 block programs requiring elevation

I'm trying to find out if there is any way to elevate a specific function within an application. For example, I have an app with system and user settings that are stored in the registry, I only need elevation for when the system settings need to be changed. Unfortunately all of the info I've come across talks about only starting a new process with elevated privileges. What you really need to do is store your settings the Application Data folder. It is impossible to elevate just one function or any other part of a single process, because the elevation level is a per-process attribute. Just like

My app runs as requestedExecutionLevel set to highestAvailable . How do I run a process unelevated? I tried the following but it didn't work: Process.Start(new ProcessStartInfo {FileName = "foo.exe", Verb = "open"}) I have tried the following trust levels to start my process using Win32 API but none of them work correctly: 0 1260: This program is blocked by group policy. For more information, contact your system administrator. 0x1000 The application was unable to start correctly (0xc0000142). Click OK to close the application. 0x10000 Process starts then hangs 0x20000 All options are not

My Vista application needs to know whether the user has launched it "as administrator" (elevated) or as a standard user (non-elevated). How can I detect that at run time? For those of us working in C#, in the Windows SDK there is a "UACDemo" application as a part of the "Cross Technology Samples". They find if the current user is an administrator using this method: private bool IsAdministrator { get { WindowsIdentity wi = WindowsIdentity.GetCurrent(); WindowsPrincipal wp = new WindowsPrincipal(wi); return wp.IsInRole(WindowsBuiltInRole.Administrator); } } (Note: I refactored the original code

I've found an article on how to elevate a COM object written in C++ by calling CoCreateInstanceAsAdmin . But what I have not been able to find or do, is a way to implement a component of my .NET (c#) application as a COM object and then call into that object to execute the tasks which need UAC elevation. MSDN documents this as the admin COM object model . I am aware that it is possible and quite easy to launch the application (or another app) as an administrator, to execute the tasks in a separate process (see for instance the post from Daniel Moth , but what I am looking for is a way to do

I'm trying to run an external executable, but apparently it needs elevation. The code is this, modified from an example of using ProcessBuilder (hence the array with one argument) : public static void main(String[] args) throws IOException { File demo = new File("C:\\xyzwsdemo"); if(!demo.exists()) demo.mkdirs(); String[] command = {"C:\\fakepath\\bsdiff4.3-win32\\bspatch.exe"}; ProcessBuilder pb = new ProcessBuilder( command ); Process process = pb.start(); InputStream is = process.getInputStream(); InputStreamReader isr = new InputStreamReader(is); BufferedReader br = new BufferedReader(isr)