> The problem is that Vista won't let me run any executable whose name =~
> m/patch/i without first getting my Administrator password. Vista doesn't
> care what the file actually does - it just decides that any executable whose
> name =~ m/patch/i needs admin privileges to run, and that it can't be run
> from the command line. (This of course means that I can rename patch.exe to,
> say, othername.exe, and I can then run it fine - but I have to run it as
> 'othername', not 'patch'.)
>
> Despite the fact that this is a great and wondrous innovation on the part of
> Microsoft (I bet Linux wish they'd thought of it first), I would like to
> remove this behaviour. Anyone know how to do that ?
Did you try to create a patch.exe.manifest file in the same directory as
patch.exe that request to run "asInvoker"? It should contain something like
this:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="yes"?>
<assembly xmlns="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:asm.v1" manifestVersion="1.0">
<trustInfo xmlns="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:asm.v2">
<security>
<requestedPrivileges>
<requestedExecutionLevel level="asInvoker"/>
</requestedPrivileges>
</security>
</trustInfo>
</assembly>
If this doesn't work, download the ACT (Application Compatibility Toolkit)
from Microsoft and try to apply a runAsInvoker shim to the executable.
There may also be a location in the registry to specify the requested
execution level.
Cheers,
-Jan
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