DePriest, Jason R. wrote on Thursday, December 14, 2006 7:30 PM: > On 12/14/06, Brian Dessent wrote: [snip] >> I thought the idea here was that the manifest tells the system >> explicitly "I am not an installer and I do not need to be run with >> elevated privileges", i.e. treat it like a normal program. >> > > From Microsoft Vista's UAC Dev Requirements > -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- > When developing new installation programs, much like developing > programs for Windows Vista, be sure to embed an application manifest > with an appropriate requestedExecutionLevel element. See the Step Six: > Create and Embed an Application Manifest with Your Application section > for more information. When the requestedExecutionLevel is present in > the embedded application manifest, it overrides Installer Detection. > -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- > > So if you use > > <requestedExecutionLevel > level="asInvoker" /> > > It should work without requiring elevated privileges. Maybe.
Don't post such well kept secrets to lastest (patented?) M$ technology in public mailing lists, otherwise malware programmers might get aware of it. ROTLFWMP - Jörg BTW: I bet VStudio creates such manifests on-the-fly simply by activating a checkbox, but it's another well-known fact that malware programmers do never use VStudio - maybe gcc? -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
