uac

I've created a Visual studio Setup Project, and I have an Installer Classes created for my main App. In this Installer Class, I overridden the Uninstaller function to clean extra folders created by my app. This works fine in windows XP, but not in Windows 7 since I assume it has something to do with UAC. How Can I force my Uninstaller to elevate privileges? I've asked this question in another post, but I wasn't clear on my intentions. I've found these links but I don't know if it's relevant: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa370852.aspx http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa370134

I'm trying to write automated test, to ensure that the installer for my program works okay. The program can be installed for all users (requires admin privs), or for current user (does not require admin privs). The program can also autoupdate itself, which in some cases requires admin privileges, and in some cases doesn't. I'm looking for a way where I can have an automated test click "Yes, Allow" on the UAC dialogs, so I can write tests for all different scenarios, on many different operating systems, so that I can be confident when I make changes to the installer that I didn't break anything

I'm trying to use the following code to run a user-mode process from my service application (running as a local system .) The requirement for the user-mode process is to run without elevatation, but to have UIAccess="true" in its manifest to be able to display top-most windows correctly under Windows 8 . So I do this (from my service) to run my user-mode process: //NOTE: Error checking is omitted for readability //'dwSessionID' = user session ID to run user-mode process in //'pUserProcPath' = L"C:\\Program Files (x86)\\Company\\Software\\user_process.exe" HANDLE hToken = NULL;

I have an elevated console running some bat files. Having this console running in elevated mode is mandatory for it to be able to perform some tasks like managing network shares, etc without asking for permissions. But sometimes the scripts also have to launch some applications which are not desired to run elevated. So we want our elevated bats to start come application in non-elevated mode. Is there any built-in way to do this on Windows? Processes were started with DOS command START up to the date. By the way, the machine is a Windows 7 Ultimate Edition x64. I know this isue is already

Windows 7 uses an automatic mechanism to detect whether an application needs elevated administrator privileges. Or the application itself has a manifest. Is there a way to find out programmatically whether a specified application needs elevated administrator privileges or not? I don't want to start it to find it out. Thank you ;). There's really just one way to tell Windows that a program needs to be elevated and that's through the manifest file. Manifest files can either be embedded within an assembly (exe/dll) or can live in a separate file named <YOUR_APP>.exe.manifest . That's really the

i am wondering if its possible to solve this problem. Ive got qt application and if user tick the checkbox, i want this application to launch on startup of operating system. Ive already googled, and ive come up with this solution> my QT application needs admin privileges in order to modify registry, so create manifest file ( <requestedExecutionLevel level="requireAdministrator" uiAccess="false"/> ) 2.apply this command mt -manifest manifestfile -outputresource:binfile.exe;1 3.use this piece of code in QT to modify registry void MainWindow::set_on_startup() { QSettings settings("HKEY_LOCAL

I want a sure-shot method to test if the application was run via the UAC box and has full administrative rights. Earlier, I thought of making a folder in C:\Windows\ for testing but running it on other computers proved to be a failure! The UAC box provides all administrative rights to the computer to do anything(including making folders and creating files in places which needs there rights) and also makes sure that any child program so called or created also does have the same rights as the parent. Is there a sure-shot way to test if my application has been provided all the administrative