Re: Installing VB6 SP5 in Vista

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"Karl E. Peterson" <karl@xxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:%23A5Mkon6HHA.1208@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
David Kerber <ns_dkerber@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
In article <#O#cWVn6HHA.2632@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, karl@xxxxxxxx
says...
Lorin <Lorin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
No problems.
Surprised after all the bad things I have heard.
Maybe it is laying in wait.
Must be doing something wrong???

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One thing I haven't found the answer to yet is, how do you prevent that damned
UAC from asking whether you *really* want to run VB6.EXE every time you fire it
up -- *without* totally disabling UAC altogether?

Check out this article I saw yesterday (watch the line wrap):

http://www.informationweek.com/blog/main/archives/2007/08/microsoft_endor.html

Hmmmm, so there's no way to do this for a single app? It's only a system-wide switch?

I ask because in one of my Vista VPCs, I seem to have accomplished what I was after. UAC is (apparently?) turned on, but when I start either VB5 or VB6, I'm not prompted to press a stupid authorization. I'm sure I didn't run any special utility to get it to this state, though I did have UAC turned off during install. Might that have been it?

If you are running as the actual 'administrator' account and the app is configured to always run as administrator then by default you don't get prompted. That can be changed using system policies. You can also change policies so that other administrator accounts don't get prompted but it's for all apps. for the policies try secpol.msc / local policies / security options and scroll to find the "user account control xxxxx" entries

If your VB install on that system isn't configured to always run as administrator (right-click the exe or shortcut and select properties and go to the compatibility tab assuming no manifest exists) then you won't get prompted but won't be running with admin rights either.


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