windows-vista

I have a small script that performs the build and install process on Windows for a Bazaar repository I'm managing. I'm trying to run the script with elevated, administrative privileges from within the Windows shell (cmd.exe)--just as if I'd right-clicked it and chosen Run as Administrator , but without using any method that requires use of the graphical interface. A batch/WSH hybrid is able to call ShellExecute to display the UAC elevation dialog... @if (1==1) @if(1==0) @ELSE @echo off&SETLOCAL ENABLEEXTENSIONS >nul 2>&1 "%SYSTEMROOT%\system32\cacls.exe" "%SYSTEMROOT%\system32\config\system"||

I've created a database windows application using in C#. My application is running successfully on Windows XP, but it doesn't properly execute on Vista or Windows 7 systems. My application shows a message similar to Failed to update .mdf database because the database is read-only Can anyone give me a solution to this? If the MDB file is in your application path, then the default permissions would require elevation of rights to be able to write to the files -- I'd recommend moving the data to the ApplicationData shared folder, where end users will have write permissions by default The big thing

Is it possible to programaticly run compiled Python (comiled via py2exe) as administrator in Vista? Some more clarification: I have written a program that modifies the windows hosts file (c:\Windows\system32\drivers\etc\hosts) in Vista the program will not run and will fail with an exception unless you right-click and run as administrator even when the user has administrator privileges, unlike in XP where it will run if the user has administration rights, so I need a way to elevate it to the correct privileges programaticly. Do you mean that you want Windows to prompt for elevation when your

I recently updated my Visual Basic 6.0 application and now include an exe.manifest file to prevent UAC Virtualization. After applying this update, some users can't find their data files ( Access MDB files) and after a system search they end up finding it in C:\Users\<username>AppData\Local\VirtualStore\Program Files(x86) . What is this folder area for and how/when do files get moved to this area? How do we prevent it? I'm hoping now that my application uses a .manifest this won't happen again. Did the files get placed there before the manifest was used as the application was being placed in

This pretty much has me defeated. On XP and earlier versions of Windows you could customise Open With filetypes to include java - jar "myjar.jar", but on Vista this functionality seems to have been removed. I can of course create a .bat file to launch my application, but is it possible to make Vista execute a .jar as required? You can do it from the command line with 2 utilities. The first one, ASSOC, is used to create a file association. To verify if there is one defined for JAR type : >assoc .jar .jar=jarfile If not found then create it with : >assoc .jar=jarfile The next step is to define