I have an update app, which can be updated itself by another update app (so, the second app is an updater of the main updater). Both apps must have administrator permissions because of writing in the Program Files folder. Is it possible that when the main updater is running (under administrator rights) it can use Shell() to let the second updater run with administrator rights without a UAC confirm dialog popping up again?
View 3 RepliesI am writing a setup program that runs as administrator. If I shell a program from the setup program will it also run as administrator?
View 6 Repliesi currently have a project that needs to edit a few files in the startuppath folder. on a non administrator o.s., if my app. is installed in ( c:program filesmy crappy little app ), i cannot write to those files. in win7, it does not even ask for administrator approval, just the option to save to my documents.. this can be quite a hassle to work with, specially on closing the app, since i have quite a few files that need to be updated.
View 7 RepliesI'm going to attempt to make a shell replacement for the Windows default shell: explorer.exe. I'm not sure if its possible using Vb.Net, but I can't seem why not. My end goal is to use a custom made shell for a Windows Preinstallation Environment instead of the default command prompt. I plan to use a 3rd party program to compile the program with the .NET Framework. Otherwise, it wouldn't work because Windows PE does not support the .NET Framework.
View 1 RepliesI'm trying to use the Shell to have my application call an external application but its not working...I don't understand why. I get the following error: 'System.windows.shell' is a namespace and cannot be used as an expression!
Heres my code....any ideas what I'm doing wrong. Its got to be a simple...stupid error.
Private Sub mnuUpgrade_Click(ByVal Ctrl As Microsoft.Expression.Web.Interop.Legacy.CommandBarButton, ByRef CancelDefault As Boolean) Handles mnuUpgrade.Click
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I have a script I have created and If i just call it with process.start, it fails.
if i right click the script, and select run as administrator it works.
Is there a programaticall way of doing this with process.start?
Right now I have
Process.start("c:test.vbs")
i made one form database app and make it full trust app then i run it on non administrator user and when i try to save data it gives me exception but works very well on administrator user !!can i make the app works well on non administrator user?
View 4 RepliesI created a vb application and I'm trying to deploy it. However, it needs to be run as administrator, which is not ideal as several machines I'm deploying it to can't access the administrator account. The odd part is that the development environment isn't on an administrator account. When I double click the compiled executable it runs fine. When I right click and choose Run As Current User the program crashes and gives me the same error I got when trying it on the target machines(without access to the administrator account.)
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I am using following code to get a directory of files with a particular extension. It throws an error that you donot have administrator privileges.[code]...
View 3 RepliesI would like to know if it is necessary to be Local Administrator on a Workstation to run VB6 I mean, just run VB6, write code and compile it.I do not mean to register DLLs, write in registry, etc.My question is just asked at the VB6 application level.
View 8 RepliesIn order to install a windows app in user's laptop, I need to log in as local administrator account. To install app, there are two option:
Every one
Just me
Which option should I select in admin account? If I select "Just me", once admin log off and user log in, does user can run app?
I am developing an Excel workbook at work and I've got a problem. I'd like to save information entered in the workbook and save it in another one (called List, for example purposes), using a macro. The problem is that the file in which I want to save the information is located on a server. When people open List.xls, it's Read Only. So, when my macro executes, it opens a Read Only workbook...I'd like to do "Open As", just like you could do by right-clicking on any file in Windows XP. The result would be that the macro would log on as administrator only to open List.xls, write in it and save it under the same name.
View 3 RepliesI am developing an application in vb.net2008,Sql Server 2005But there is a problem while running my application on Customer Machine. It throws some security related issues Access Denied or so on....And also my application does not run in Windows Vista.I am changing in my app.manifest file like this ....
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I have a vb.net clickonce application that will be used by low-level personnel with no administrator accesses. However, the application itself needs to save files to a folder on the server that is hidden and only allows read/write access to administrators. I need for these users to be able to interact with this folder using the application without giving them the ability to browse to the folder on their own. I've tried using several impersonation techniques, none have worked.
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I want to make a VB program that able to run another exe with administrator credentials. The problem is I have a user log in to pc which has XP OS, and he log in using AD account as user, the program he want to run (from another company) require that he should have administrator privileges.
I want to make a program that when he double click on it it will run that program c:companyfile.exe with administrator privileges. I search the internet and most of what I found is very lengthy code, i read the below if a fast way since this is new to me.
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I have a program I am making in VB.NET [ 2010 ], and I can get the BAT file I want to run start, but it's not in 'Elevated Mode' - Is there a way to accomplish this easily? This is the code I have to run the BAT file, which needs to be 'Run as Administrator':
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i have a visual basic program, and it has a button where, when clicked:
Process.Start("Mover.exe")
Now that works fine, except mover.exe needs to be run as administrator to do its job properly,
is there any way that the vb program could run it with admin privelages?
how can i set administrator privileges selectively in my application depending on whether it needs to write a registry value or not?my app needs the elevated privileges once, then each subsequent execution needs standard permission.
I have a VB.net application that has datagridviews and date control in windows forms. I have the short date format set in the date controls and short date format is some columns of the datagridview.If I run the application on server 2008 it picks up the wrong short date format. I have the server 2008 regional settings as "en-AU" but for some reason the app picks up en-US as the current culture.If I run the app as the Administrator it seems to pick up the proper culture.[code]
View 1 RepliesI found a vb.net code, you can drap and drop the image files to picuture box, i have tested on Windows 7 OS, double-clicked the exe file, it worked well, but when i ran this exe as administrator, it did not work, why? i want to run as administrator. The code is below:
Imports System.Text
Public Class Form1
Inherits System.Windows.Forms.Form
Implements IMessageFilter
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I've made an application that is meant to be run without administrator privileges in Windows Vista / 7, because UAC disables drag and drop events from lower applications into higher ones, because they could pass bad information into the high trust ones [for example, standard explorer cannot pass files into my program that a user might run in administrator].
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A lot of my programs require the ability to write files to the hard drive. When I first made these programs for XP they worked great. Now I'm less ignorant about UAC (got a new laptop recently). And for future customers...I've noticed the potential for a LOT of annoying error messages....and quite frankly if the program can't write data to the hard drive or thumb drive it's on...there's no point to running it....
I've tried multiple times to build in the manifest a requirement for administrator or user access....I'm not sure if anything less would solve the problem...but have failed because click-once has security features in place to prevent me from doing so.I'd rather not have to tell my customers how to make the program run as an administrator by editing the file's properties...I'd much rather have a convenient pop up like what you'd see new programs such as Itunes or Filezilla show if they were in conflict with UAC requesting the privileges they need.
I'd really like to do this but have had little success.
i've written a database program which runs fine from the ide (vs 2008).when i install this program, all database operations do not work.i tried running it as an administrator using an admin command prompt, it worked.now for my less tech savvy clients, is it possible that when they right click the programs icon they can use the 'run as administrator' menu item? how can i achieve this.if it's too much to implement, will moving the database from the application path to, say, documents?
View 3 Repliesi've written a database program which runs fine from the ide (vs 2008). when i install this program, all database operations do not work. i tried running it as an administrator using an admin command prompt, it worked. now for my less tech savvy clients, is it possible that when they right click the programs icon they can use the 'run as administrator' menu item? how can i achieve this. if it's too much to implement, will moving the database from the application path to, say, documents, solve this issue?
View 14 RepliesI have this problem where is wont let me create and files through the command prompt via echo xxx> C:xxx in Visual Basic. If I do it sepoaratly and run the command prompt as admin (This is not using vb at all) then it will work. I have tried putting my vb app to require previlidges at both levels at different times, not at once, and I still got the same thing.So is there a way I can use the comman prompt through vb, but also making the command prompt being an admin without turning off UAC?The code that will not work is this.
Shell(Environ$("Comspec") & " /c """ & WDir & "ToolsMediaInfoMediaInfo.exe"" --output=xml """ & WDir & "ToolsMediaInfoMediaInfo.xml""")
Is there anyway to code this so that it picks up the correct User account, as all computers wont be logged on as Administrator?the code is:
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I have wanted to ask. I have a table tlogin. user_nm the first field and second field pass. so when the login form, if I login as admin then there is a special menu for admin.
View 1 RepliesI want to display a prompt to the user as such: "Program requires Administrator privileges to continue, click OK to restart the program with administrator privileges". The question is how can I restart my program so that it asks for them?
View 7 RepliesStart a process from vb with administrator rights?
View 13 Repliescan i request a sample code for a library system.. MS Access for the database the program should have:
a. User Login for Members and Administrator
b. Different access control for the two accounts
c. Program saved in a database
d. Can generate reports