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Create Manifest for Vista UAC if Not Running Under Administrative Rights
From a developer perspective Windows Vista's UAC can be problematic for some parts of your Delphi application, if the application is not being run by an administartor. One such operation is writing to the Registry database.
Learn how to "request admin rights" by creating an application manifest file....
Windows Vista - User Account Control
User Account Control is a security component in Windows Vista. UAC enables users to perform common tasks as non-administrators, called standard users in Windows Vista, and as administrators without having to switch users, log off, or use Run As.
To help prevent malicious software from silently installing and causing computer-wide infection, Microsoft developed the UAC feature.
From a developer perspective the following UAC features are important:
From a developer perspective Windows Vista s UAC can be problematic for some parts of your Delphi application if the application is not being run by an administartor One such operation is writing to the Registry database
Learn how to request admin rights by creating an application manifest file
Windows Vista - User Account Control
User Account Control is a security component in Windows Vista UAC enables users to perform common tasks as non-administrators called standard users in Windows Vista and as administrators without having to switch users log off or use Run As
To help prevent malicious software from silently installing and causing computer-wide infection Microsoft developed the UAC feature
var
sKey string
Section string
const
ApplicationTitle = Your Application TITLE
begin
if bRunOnce then
sKey Once
else
sKey
Section Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run + sKey + #0
with TRegIniFile Create do
try
RootKey HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE
if Remove then
DeleteKey Section ApplicationTitle
else
WriteString Section ApplicationTitle sCmdLine
finally
Free
end
end
On Vista, if the user running the application does not have admin rights the above code would fail, due to UAC!
Faking UAC Rights - How to Request Execution Level
Even if the user running the above code is n
Create XML file with following content:
?xml version= 1 0 encoding= UTF-8 standalone= yes ?
assembly xmlns= urn:schemas-microsoft-com:asm v1 manifestVersion= 1 0]
assemblyIdentity version= 1 1 1 1
processorArchitecture= X86
name= YourApplicationExeName
type= win32
description elevate execution level description
trustInfo xmlns= urn:schemas-microsoft-com:asm v2]
security
requestedPrivileges
requestedExecutionLevel level= requireAdministrator uiAccess= false
requestedPrivileges
security
trustInfo
assembly
1 24 YourApplicationName manifest
brcc32 YourApplicationName RC -foYourApplicationName REC
{$R YourApplicationName REC}
How to Automate the Above Create Manifest Process
