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DarkBASIC Professional Discussion / "Run as Administrator"

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GIDustin
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Posted: 2nd Jan 2012 20:16
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I made an auto-updater for my game, and it writes directly to the program files directory. With Windows Vista/7, this needs to be run as admin or it will fail when it tries to open files to write them.

How can I get my program to ask for admin privileges before it is run? Every website I have been to says I might need to make a manifest?
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Benjamin
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Posted: 2nd Jan 2012 20:44 Edited at: 2nd Jan 2012 20:44
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I was going to first suggest that you don't write directly to the program files directory since on Vista/7 this is considered bad practice, but in the case of updating executable files it's fine.

Take a look at this link. The article itself is a bit lengthy but it should give you all the information you need.



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GIDustin
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Posted: 2nd Jan 2012 20:59
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I read that and didn't get much out of it. Most of the guides online are for Visual Basic/C, not DBPro.

I did find an article here and followed it. My application now asks for admin rights when run, but that is it. The "mt.exe" replaced my 8MB exe with a 500kb exe that asks for Admin rights, and then closes....
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MrValentine
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Posted: 3rd Jan 2012 14:18
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I would have thought the old school method of a READ ME would suffice

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bitJericho
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Posted: 3rd Jan 2012 14:35
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i don't know if this would work, but you could try to create a batch file that uses the runas command as described in the doc ben linked to.


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GIDustin
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Posted: 3rd Jan 2012 15:10
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I did end up finding a solution. I downloaded the trial of ResTuner. With that I was able to open the EXE, open the manifest, and change it to require administrator.
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