Re: VB 6 and Vista problem

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I have explored the issue a bit further, and finally found a solution.

Beforehand I have tried to allocate the links using the "Shell"-object.

But the same problem here:

The call "objWshShell.SpecialFolders("Programs")"

delivered the context of the admin-account, whose login-Data I used to run
the program with elevated rights, and not(!) the context of the user as
which I was originally logged in !

Testing this, I found something else totally unexplainable:

The call "objWshShell.SpecialFolders("AllUsersPrograms")" (correctly)
resulted in "J:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\Programs"

The call "S$="AllUsersPrograms":objWshShell.SpecialFolders(S$)"
(incorrectly) resulted in "J:\Users\Public\Desktop"!?????

What is this supposed to mean????

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Now the solution:

As Vista won't tell me in this scenario (executing a program with
admin-rights within another account) where I am really at home, the only
solution left was to create the links and shortcuts "for all users".

Only now can I see them in my original account!

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Imo there is something conceptionally totally wrong in VISTA!

The fact, that I, as a normal user, execute a program with admin-rights,
must never ever lead to a situation, that my data may end-up in the context
of the admin, whose login-data I was using, and not in my context!

Seems to me, that each and every program, that is installed with admin
rights within another account will face this problem.

Or do I do something wrong???

Are there (different?) experiences?

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Dipl.-Ing.(TH) Winfried Kaiser
c/o Fortune Systems GmbH & Co.
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D-24975 Husby
Germany

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