Re: MFC App unable to run in Vista with UAC enabled

In article news:<m2vj2415r6clu7h2pnrh97cqetlrqmqenc@xxxxxxx>, Bob Moore
wrote:
Every so often LID thought that we had done something that made us
look a bit like an installer... and bang. Silly me just expected an
elevation dialog, but it seems life's not that simple.

If LID causes problems for you then you should probably give your app a
Vista-style manifest. That'll tell Vista that your app doesn't regard
itself as legacy and LID won't bother you (or shouldn't, anyway).

I don't want to be seen to be propping up the polished turd
that is Vista.

That's the nicest thing I've seen written about Vista all week!

UAC is actually not a bad idea (minimal privilege has always been a
good idea), its just the current implementation that sucks.

The important thing to realize is that you don't need UAC to run with
minimal privilege. I'm running Win2k here, as a "User" (not even a
"Power User") and apart from occasional trips to the Admin account to
set up stuff I can't do as a user (and for which "Run As" isn't
adequate) everything works very well. It's even less trouble in XP,
where "Run as" almost always does the trick.

*Some* of the implementation of UAC works OK, but some of the things it
does are incomprehensibly obstruse and others are just bizarre. It's
usable as a tool to enable unsophisticated users to (mostly) work their
PCs once you've forced them into a limited user account, but in a
corporate environment where there are windows-savvy sysadmins to do the
Administrator thing those sysadmins should set up the software and nail
down the security and then normal users should be running limited
accounts with UAC *OFF*.

Cheers,
Daniel.


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