windows-vista

I'm trying to figure out if there's a way to use SetWindowsHookEx and be able to affect apps that are run with Admin rights on Vista, with UAC enabled. This is an app that will need to add a small button to the caption bar of other windows to enable some multi-monitor-aware handling. I would have thought this couldn't be done, but I've seen one app that appears to do this. As far as I can tell, this other apps is not being run with Admin rights, and yet it can affect all apps in the system, including those with Admin privilege. It would seem that there's a way to do this, then, but I'm at a

I currently have a c++ application that gets built on xp and windows vista/7 virtualize some of the paths which i dont want it to do. Some sites says to add this to manifest file: <?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.v3"> <security> <requestedPrivileges> <requestedExecutionLevel level="asInvoker" uiAccess="false"/> </requestedPrivileges> </security> </trustInfo> </assembly> How ever that is for .net applications. How can i do this under c++ for visual

One of my Executables writes some configuration into a XML file to C:\Program Files\MyApp\config.xml. It needs to run as Administrator on Vista / Server 2008, otherwise the OS won't let it write to that location. I included a manifest file named config.exe.manifest, to automatically request administration rights at launch. Here's my manifest file: <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> <assembly xmlns="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:asm.v1" manifestVersion="1.0"> <trustInfo xmlns="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:asm.v3"> <security> <requestedPrivileges> <requestedExecutionLevel level=

From a Vista workstation, I have an attached XP Embedded computer on which I want to programmatically mount a volume locally (e.g., mount the XP Embedded \\MyXPEmbedded\C:\some\path\ to the Vista workstation (mounted to C:\mounted_XPEmbedded\ ). (This is an administrative utility that runs on the Vista workstation that maintains files on the XP Embedded workstation, which is part of a larger device.) I can see the XP Embedded computer from the Vista workstation. For example, I can ::getnameinfo() to resolve the XP Embedded computer's name from its IP address. However, all calls to

After compiling a simple C++ project using Visual Studio 2008 on vista, everything runs fine on the original vista machine and other vista computers. However, moving it over to an XP box results in an error message: "The application failed to start because the application configuration is incorrect". What do I have to do so my compiled EXE works on XP and Vista? I had this same problem a few months ago, and just fiddling with some settings on the project fixed it, but I don't remember which ones I changed. You need to install the Visual Studios 2008 runtime on the target computer: http://www