We have an application that we distribute via ClickOnce. The user base used to have Power User rights on their machines and the Desktop icon and Start Menu Group would be created every time.
Since the operations team took away Power User rights, the desktop icon and the start menu group is not being created.
What machine rights are needed in order to be able to create both a Desktop icon and a Start menu group in Windows XP ?
Thank you in advance,
The user only needs to be able to read and write to their own profile to be able to create the desktop shortcut and a start menu group.
Note that ClickOnce won't do anything that requires administrative privileges.
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In a personal project, I want to display my application before (or above) the Windows Logon, ie just before entering the Windows password.
The application must "hide" the password entry screen. I used to launch an application at Windows startup but this after viewing the Windows desktop.
Is it possible to do this please? Should I create a Windows service that will launch my application?
Thanks for your help
If this is just a personal project on your own machine you could set Windows to autologon and then just run your application like a normal startup shortcut.
A NT service is the only documented way to run code before a user logs on. However, spawning a new process in another session and interacting with the Winlogon desktop and putting yourself on top of LogonUI.exe is going to be a hack.
I am trying to take screenshots of the license information of the application before installing it onto my test window os.
When I click on the installer, the publisher window pops up asking me whether I want to launch the installer or not; But when I want to take screenshots or printscreen using keyboard shortcuts it doesn't work.
It seems that the keyboard shortcuts is disabled during this pop up install dialog.
All I want is to take screenshots at the publisher certificate information before installing the application.
Can anyone with experience on windows help?
UAC: If you are referring to the UAC prompt that shows up first to ask for elevation, then it happens on a secure desktop separate from your main one and hence the screen shot appears impossible. This separate desktop is a security measure. In actual fact it is perhaps the core security measure added to Windows in recent years (don't turn it off permanently).
Disable UAC Temporarily: You can disable this security measure temporarily so you can take a screenshot as described here: How to get a UAC screenshot. Here is a sample screen shot of a UAC prompt for an MSI installation: Numeric file name for msi created with Wix
Here is the essential procedure inlined:
Run gpedit.msc
Locate: Computer Configuration\Windows Settings\Security Settings\Local Policies\SecurityOptions:
Change "User Account Control: Switch to the secure desktop when prompting for elevation" to disabled
Undo this change after the screenshot or your system will be very insecure!
i have two windows servers : windows server 2003 and windows server 2008.
in windows 2008 when i start a batch script through scheduled task,
it opens a visible CMD window with my batch on it.
in windows 2003 on the other hand when i start a batch script through scheduled task,
it doesn't open a visible CMD window (interact with desktop not available?) but i can see the process of the batch running in the background.
does anyone knows how can i activate the Desktop? so i can see the CMD open
Thanks :)
so i found the solution. there were two thing i had to do:
A- check the checkbox for "Run only if logged in" in the task itself.
B- enable "Allow service to interact with desktop" on the task scheduler service.
1.)Click Start, click Control Panel, and then double-click Administrative Tools.
2.)Click Computer Management.
3.)Expand Services and Applications, and then click Services.
4.)Right-click the Task Scheduler service, and then click Properties.
5.)On the General tab, make sure that the startup type is set to automatic, and that the service status is Started. If the service is not running, click Start.
6.)On the Log On tab, make sure that the local system account is selected, and that the Allow service to interact with desktop check box has a check mark.
7.)Click OK, and then quit Computer Management.
I have developed an application that needs admin rights to execute. Running the application on Windows 7, the user always have to launch the application as "Run as Administrator" otherwise my application prompts the user that "you don't have administrative rights etc...". This is OK and understandable because of UAC in windows 7.
To get rid that the user have to set the application as "Run as Administrator". I updated my application's "app.manifest" and set
<requestedExecutionLevel level="highestAvailable" uiAccess="false" />
Which done the job for me.
But now, a security center symbol shield appears with my application's icon.
Now my question is "Why does this icon appear on my application, and what does it indicate?"
I tried marking another of my applications to "Always Run as Administrator" via windows but the same icon wouldn't appear with that application.
I want to understand the reasons and scenarios.
The shield is there to remind the user that if they double-click the exe to run it, they will get a UAC dialog. These dialogs should never be a surprise and if you get one you weren't expecting, you should really not consent to it.
The shield appears if you have a manifest that requests elevation (requireAdministrator or highestAvailable, but not if your manifest specifies asInvoker), and for certain file names. For more details see my blog entry (written at Vista time, but still applies to Windows 7) and MSDN articles on UAC and UI guidelines.
I want to use a Application on Windows 7 without Admin priviliges.
(Sure for the install process i used Admin priviliges)
Now i had following problem:
When i want to start the application the UAC popup ask for an Admin Account to run the program. But the User had no Admin account and can only click "No" so the Application is closed.
Is it possible to use this application with the rights from the current user and deactivate the UAC prompt?
On Win XP, only popup a error message that the application had no admin priviliges.
But by selecting "Ok" the application is starting and working.
You need to create and embed a manifest into your application. This tells the operating system that your program was written to be compatible with the UAC built into Windows Vista (and later), and therefore does not need to be run as Administrator. Set the requested execution level to asInvoker.
See this article on MSDN for more details.
There's also a helpful, though somewhat more general, article that appeared in the MSDN Magazine regarding UAC: Teach Your Apps To Play Nicely With Windows Vista User Account Control