VS 2008 Check If Software Is Running With Administrator Privileges?
Jul 15, 2011i am using vb.net express 2008, and i wanted to check if the user had opened the software as admin, or not. windows 7 and windows vista.
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Getting Administrator Privileges Error
Sep 1, 2010I 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 RepliesSet Administrator Privileges Selectively?
May 15, 2010how 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.
Restart Program With Administrator Privileges
Nov 1, 2009I 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 RepliesVS 2008 WPF Registry Edit Auto-Start // Check Admin Privileges?
Apr 29, 2011I'm having trouble getting my app to auto-start by adding a registry key. The problem it is having is checking if the user has admin privileges. I tried setting the thread principal, because before it would always return false when I tried My.User.IsAuthenticated, but when I check if My.User.IsInRole("Administrators"), it still returns false, even when it should return true.Here's my current code. This worked fine without even setting the thread principal when I was just creating a regular Windows Form.
AppDomain.CurrentDomain.SetThreadPrincipal(New Security.Principal.GenericPrincipal(New Security.Principal.GenericIdentity("UserName"), Nothing))
If My.User.IsAuthenticated Then
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Use Process.Start To Start An Application Without Administrator Privileges On Windows 7
Feb 24, 2012Visual Basic 2010 - Net Framework 4.0 Client
I have an application (application #1) running with Administrator privileges on Windows 7.
I want application # 1 to start another application (application #2) without Administrator privileges so application #2 is running as a standard user.
Is there a way to do this? I have been using Process.Start.
VS 2008 Check If Current User Has Administrator Rights?
Sep 1, 2009I've been looking around for a way to check if the current user has Administrator rights but the information seems to be quite disperse and not exactly
View 3 RepliesRunning VB Dotnet Applications With User Privileges?
May 17, 2009I am running a client-server application and am having problems with privileges (I assume). The application is developed using 2005 Express. The Client is running Win XP Home whilst the server is running Win 2003. When the user on the client has Admin rights on the local machine, everything is OK; however when the user has only User rights, an error occurs: VB will not run.
View 14 RepliesRunning A BAT File As Administrator
Apr 19, 2010I 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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Running Program As Administrator??
Nov 14, 2010i 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?
Administrative Privileges - Check For Update Button
Jun 21, 2010Well on my application there is a check for update button and it needs administrative privileges in order for it to download the update (it needs to make a version change in the registry) and I don't have permission to. How can I make it so it asks for permission?
View 2 RepliesClick Once 2010 .net 4 Windows Program Running As An Administrator?
Jun 28, 2011My VB.net framework 4 windows program work fine for the users on Windows XP machines if they are in the local Administrator Group. I would like to setup this click once application to run as an administrator so the user doesn't need to be in the Administrator group. The program is reading the"C:Documents and Settings" & User & "Local SettingsTemp" folder looking for files with extension like "emf", "tmp" and "htm" and then deleting the files if they are older than 24 hours. We have a third party application that adds these file and doesn't delete them so I need the users to run this cleanup program.
View 2 Replies.net - Get Around Running Visual Studio As Administrator In Windows 7 To Interact With Internet Explorer
Jun 14, 2011I'm using SHDocVw.InternetExplorerClass to scrape a webpage. It works fine in XP, but when I try to run it in windows 7 I get an error:The interface is unknown. (Exception from HRESULT: 0x800706B5)
When I run visual studio in administrator mode it works fine, but the published application has to be run in administrator mode too, which isn't acceptable.
Is there any way to get around running the application in administrator mode?
2008 - Check If A Certain Process Is NOT Running
Jan 24, 2009I need to check if a certain process is NOT running. So until now i've been using a loop and if it doesn't find the process then it alerts me (with MsgBox) however now i realized that the for each loops looks on each process and if that process isn't the one im looking for its gonna give me an alert, that it was not running even when the next process could be the one i need to know about. [Code]
View 6 RepliesVS 2008 : Check That The Process Is Already Running?
Oct 12, 2009I have a function key defined to load Windows calculator using:
Process.Start("calc.exe")
How do I check that the process is already running?
VS 2008 Check If Application Is Already Running?
Jul 30, 2011How to check if my application is already running? So I can prevent it from starting twice.For example:My application is already running, the user is trying to run it again, a MsgBox shows and says that this application is already running.
View 2 Replies[2008] Check If Outlook Is Already Running
Feb 17, 2010I am currently using the code below to open outlook automatically.
Dim psInfo As New System.Diagnostics.ProcessStartInfo("OUTLOOK.EXE")
psInfo.WindowStyle = System.Diagnostics.ProcessWindowStyle.Maximized
Dim myProcess As Process = System.Diagnostics.Process.Start(psInfo)
However, this simply opens a new instance regardless of whether it is already open or not. I'd like to check if there is an existing instance, and if so don't open outlook.
VS 2008 : Check A Game Server Is Running?
Aug 18, 2009How would i check a game server is running?
View 2 RepliesRunning As Admin - Vista Users Always Have To Set It As "Run As Administrator" ?
Jan 24, 2010Every time I make a application and distribute it, Vista users always have to set it as "Run as Administrator" for it to work... Is there any way to make it to where they don't need to do this?
View 3 RepliesAllow Administrator Rights To StartupPath Only, On A Non Administrator O.s?
Nov 26, 2009i 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 RepliesVS 2008 Restarting Without Administrator [UAC]
Apr 6, 2010I'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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VS 2008 Administrator Rights With Program?
Dec 29, 2009My.Computer.FileSystem.DeleteFile(My.Computer.FileSystem.CombinePath(My.Computer.FileSystem.SpecialDirectories.ProgramFiles, "Myprogramfile.txt"))But when I try this it will only work when the program runs with administrator rights. Is there a way to let the program work this way that no administrator rights are needed, or that the program may only boot up as administrator? So they won't be allowed to boot it up without administator rights. (I do not mean to force the administrator, but only to let them press "accept" or "cancel" in the UAC pupop
View 5 RepliesVS 2008 How To Make App Ask To Open As An Administrator
Jan 5, 2011I wrote an app, and in win7 it only works perfectly when ran as an admin, cause it moves some files etc.
View 3 RepliesVS 2008 Administrator Account / User Rights
Aug 14, 2009While testing my software a friend of mine got the following Error: "Access to the database file is not allowed. [File name = ...etc..." I found out that this has to do with the user rights in Vista (perhaps also XP). How can I solve this?
View 3 RepliesVS 2008 Get Administrator Members Takes A Long Time
Apr 18, 2011I am using the below code to get the local Administrator members, but this code takes about 6-7 seconds to execute. More precisely the "GetObject" takes that long.Is there another way to get the same information but faster?Also, where can I find what other properties the objects holds ? (To see what other useful information I can get)[code]
View 1 RepliesCheck If EXE Is Running?
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View 4 RepliesHow To Check If App Is Running Or Not
Feb 21, 2011I am working on a tool that will better manage the server applications I run on my server. I have a working version of what I need written in VB6, I've tried converting the code from vb6 to .net with no luck. Basically I have a few server applications I would like to display the status of, if they're running or not. Then with a few buttons to start/stop the application accordingly. I've found a few different code snippets across the web which I've tried to implement in to my project with no luck.
View 5 Replies.NET Check If Another Application Is Running?
May 11, 2009I have an application that provides core services for a series of other applications.When another of these applications is started, I want to check that the service application is running and if not shutdown.What is the best method to check for the existence of the other app? I'm thinking that I should be using a global mutex in the services app and checking for it's existence in the other apps. Is this the correct way to proceed?
View 4 RepliesCheck For Certain Running Processes
Aug 15, 2011I am trying to check for certain processes that is running and then inform the user of those processes via textbox like "The programs; -name of the processes running goes here- are running". [code]
View 2 RepliesCheck If A .exe Program Is Running?
May 28, 2010Although I signed up a year ago I didnt have enough free time to carry on programming, but have now made some time.
I have spent the past 2 hours trying to look for a code for visual basic 2008 that will check if a program is running.
It would be really helpful if someone wrote the whole code out and made it clear exactly where I put them name of the .exe file