Windows 7 - UAC problems Administrator account

Question

Hello, Our legacy application use COM Server which require compatibility to XPSP2 to run in Widows Vista and Windows 7. This application runs without any messages and problems in Vista but  in Windows 7, in Administrator account UAC message shown on launch of the application and warns that this application is about to change files. However when running this application in standard user the application launches without UAC messages. Is there way to launch the application in administrator account with lesser privileges as it runs in the standard account ?

Answer 1

Hello Eyal

The behavior looks like highestAvailable requestedExecutionLevel
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb756929.aspx
highestAvailable
 The application runs with the highest privileges the current user can obtain.
 Recommended for mixed-mode applications. Plan to refractor the application in a future release.

Could you please use this tool to retrieve the manifest of the application, and post the manifest content here?
http://weblogs.asp.net/blogs/kennykerr/ManifestView.zip

Regards,
Jialiang Ge

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Answer 2

Thanks for your answer
Unfortanently I am not in work so I cant give you the manifest today.
We embeded the manifest with runexecution level as invoker and uiaccess=false in addition application is not installed in the program files directory but in c:\application name and also the executable is signed.

Answer 3

Hello

> in Windows 7, in Administrator account UAC message shown on launch of the application and warns that this application is about to change files.

What file is the application about to change? Is the file under restricted locations like C:\Program Files?


Are you using COM Elevation Moniker http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms679687(VS.85).aspx?

Regards,
Jialiang Ge

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Answer 4

Hello

How are you? Could you please check the above-mentioned inforamtion for me?

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