I went about it with the win32 extensions package, along with some demo code I found. I posted a detailed explanation of the process on this thread. I don’t want to reproduce it all here, but here is the short version (click the foregoing link for the details). Download and install the pywin32 extension. Grab … Read more
If you want to register the association for every user, write your data to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Classes If you want to register the association for the current user only, write your data to HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Classes This is how to do the latter: with TRegistry.Create do try RootKey := HKEY_CURRENT_USER; if OpenKey(‘\Software\Classes\.myfile’, true) then WriteString(”, ‘MyAppDataFile’); if OpenKey(‘\Software\Classes\MyAppDataFile’, true) … Read more
Set the EnableLUA DWORD value in HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\System to 0 and reboot. this will disable UAC without a problem, i would do it to all your users, with or without permission is up to you, because the vista UAC is so horrid that i do believe the less people that have it on the better (in … Read more
What am I doing wrong or what should I be looking for? Is it reasonable to expect backspace, specifically, to work? No, IDLE does not support backspace, nor carriage-return, nor formfeed, nor ANSI escape sequences. You are expecting \b to move the cursor one cell to the left in IDLE’s interactive shell window. It doesn’t … Read more
Your problem is that the variable get replaced when the batch processor reads the for command, before it is executed. Try this: SET temp=Hello, world! CALL yourbatchfile.bat And you’ll see Hello printed 5 times. The solution is delayed expansion; you need to first enable it, and then use !temp! instead of %temp%: @echo off SETLOCAL … Read more
All you have to do is use the runas command to run your program as Administrator (with a caveat). runas /user:Administrator “cmdName parameters” In my case, this was runas /user:Administrator “cmd.exe /C %CD%\installer.cmd %CD%” Note that you must use Quotation marks, else the runas command will gobble up the switch option to cmd. Also note … Read more
I believe the question you want to ask Windows is “which user is logged into the current session”. To do this, call ProcessIdToSessionId() with your own process’s ID to determine the current session ID. Then call WTSQuerySessionInformation() with the WTSUserName option to fetch the user name.
Following the examples from Python2x\Lib\site-packages\py2exe\samples\user_access_control just add uac_info=”requireAdministrator” to console or windows dict: windows = [{ ‘script’: “admin.py”, ‘uac_info’: “requireAdministrator”, },]
An application that is not running with raised privileges should does not have access to the Program Files and Program Files (x86) directories. This is good for safety. In addition, in most cases when a developer tells his program to save data in the Program Files folder, for example, program settings, he has completely forgotten … Read more
The best way to detect if they are unable to perform an action is to attempt it and catch the UnauthorizedAccessException. However as @DannySmurf correctly points out you can only elevate a COM object or separate process. There is a demonstration application within the Windows SDK Cross Technology Samples called UAC Demo. This demonstration application … Read more