----- Original Message ----- From: "Jan Dubois" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "'Sisyphus'" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "'perl-win32-users'" <[email protected]> Sent: Thursday, September 25, 2008 5:15 PM Subject: RE: [OT] patch.exe on Vista is unusable. . . >> 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"?
Just gave it a try now - but no luck. I get a pop-up telling me that "The requested operation requires elevation". > > 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. I'll pursue that at some stage. For the moment I'll just rename 'patch.exe' to 'patsh.exe' - which works fine. When I first posted about this I didn't realize that a rename would work. I had tried renaming the file to 'my_patch.exe', but when the problem persisted I thought there must be more to it than a simple rename. It didn't occur to me at that time that the filename must !~ m/patch/i. I also tried out Jack's suggestion involving "Run as administrator", but couldn't get anywhere with that either. Thanks Jack, Jan. Cheers, Rob _______________________________________________ Perl-Win32-Users mailing list [email protected] To unsubscribe: http://listserv.ActiveState.com/mailman/mysubs
