Announcing the release of LUA Buglight 2.2, including support for Windows 8. LUA Buglight is an interactive utility that identifies admin-permissions issues (" LUA bugs ") in desktop applications. Version 2.2 (attached to this blog post) adds support for Windows 8 and continues support for Windows XP...

LUA Buglight 2.1.1 is was attached to this blog post and replaces v2.1. It adds support for Windows 7 SP1 and Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1. It also fixes a localization bug. Now that I've (pretty much) finished work on the Windows Sysinternals Administrators Reference , maybe I can find time to write...

I wish I had the time to write up proper documentation for LUA Buglight , the utility I wrote that identifies admin-rights issues in desktop applications. LUA Buglight is one of many "spare time" projects I work on, and for the past year and a half or so, it, like pretty much all my other "spare time...

LUA Buglight 2.1, identifies admin-permissions issues ("LUA bugs") in desktop applications. New version supports Windows 7 (x86 and x64), Vista (x86 and x64), XP (x86 only) and corresponding Server OSes. The download and more information is on this page: http://blogs.msdn.com/aaron_margosis/pages...

LUA Buglight 2.1 is here. LUA Buglight identifies admin-permissions issues ("LUA bugs") in desktop applications. I've made a lot of changes to LUA Buglight since the last "2.0 Preview" that I posted, so the version number has been bumped up: Support for Windows 7, Vista and XP, and corresponding...

Ahoy , all -- Later this week I'll be appearing at a virtual roundtable hosted by Mark Russinovich , streaming live over the web. The topic is Windows 7 application compatibility. Among other things, I'll be demoing the latest (still-unreleased) updates to LUA Buglight (latest released version here ...

I do a lot of presentations on how to identify and fix "LUA bugs" in applications (*), both for Windows XP and Windows Vista. I frequently use a little VB6 application to demonstrate writing to various portions of the file system and registry, write to .ini files in protected locations, restart services...

LUA Buglight is a utility that helps identify "LUA bugs" in applications -- application features that that fail as standard user but that work as administrator. I work on it in my spare time, so progress has been slow. Attached to this blog post is the second preview version of LUA Buglight 2.0. Main...

Attached to this blog post is a PREVIEW VERSION of LUA Buglight 2.0. LUA Buglight is a utility that helps identify "LUA bugs" in desktop applications -- the bugs that appear when the application is run as a standard user instead of as an administrator. Some of the improvements in LUA Buglight 2.0...

I recently did a TechNet webcast about the upcoming LUA Buglight 2.0. You can view the webcast here , and download the slides here .

LUA Buglight creates an alternate security context representing the current non-admin user but with admin/elevated privileges. Because that context is created in a separate logon session, none of the network connections, drive mappings or SUBST assignments of the original context are present. LUA Buglight...

I've meant to provide more info and follow-up regarding LUA Buglight , the tool I wrote to help identify "LUA bugs". "LUA bugs" are the issues that cause a program to work only when run as admin (elevated). Here are some quick notes... 1. Internationalization: there is an issue when LUA Buglight...

I'll be presenting an MSDN webcast and demoing LUA Buglight next Tuesday, October 17, 2006, 11:00am US Pacific time. Click here for more information and to register. Make sure to install the Microsoft LiveMeeting client prior to showtime. [Update, 18 Oct 2006] The webcast is now available for on...

LUA Buglight ™ is a tool I've been working on that is designed to help both developers and IT Pros (sysadmins) identify the specific causes of "LUA bugs" in desktop applications running on Windows XP, Windows Server 2003, or Windows Vista. Once the specific causes have been identified, the bugs...