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Using the uiAccess attribute of requestedExecutionLevel to Improve Applications Providing Remote Control of the Desktop
I’ve run into this exact same problem 3 times now in one week, so I figure that probably doesn’t bode well and I should attempt to do something about it. With 3 different pieces of software (one of them ours), the remote control functionality is imperfectly Read More...
Stock Viewer Shim Demo Application - Now Available in Japanese!
I have had the Stock Viewer Shim Demo application available for over a year now, and I'm delighted at how much impact it has had. I see people using this all the time! But previously it was available only in English. Well, no more - it has now been (mostly) Read More...
Standard User Analyzer Refuses to Run with Application Verifier 4.0 (and Application Verifier 3.x is Gone!)
Updated March 16, 2009: Somebody updated these links with the 4.0 version (which kind of defeats the purpose of having these links so I’m not sure what they were thinking) but they’re back to the 3.x version now. Hey, there’s a new version of Application Read More...
RunAs Radio: Chris Jackson Makes our Applications Compatible
I met the guys from RunAs Radio back in Barcelona, and a couple weeks ago I had a chance to sit down and chat with them. Check it out . Read More...
Helpdesk Elevation on Windows Vista and Windows 7
Since I was talking about configuring UAC on Windows Vista and Windows 7 a bit yesterday, I thought it made sense to bring up another policy whose actual use may not be obvious based on the name. User Account Control: Allow UIAccess applications to prompt Read More...
The Windows 7 UAC Slider, and What You Can Do on Windows Vista Today
As I am focusing more and more on Windows 7, I find that blogging now begins with web searching, to make sure that what I’m talking about is already publicly disclosed and, as such, I’m not putting my job at risk. :-) I want to go into a bit of detail Read More...
What does the MoveIniToRegistry Shim Do?
I’m still catching up with requests to talk about stuff – here’s one that came in back in June (and just came again today from somebody else): “MoveIniToRegistry clearly requires parameters, but there's no documentation defining what these are.  Read More...
How to Set Directory Permissions at Install Time using an MSI Created Using Windows Installer XML (WIX)
Here is a topic I have been saying “I’ll get to it” for a while now… We’ve talked a lot about UAC here, and I have really stressed the point that standard users shouldn’t be able to affect other users or the machine itself, and if you want to violate Read More...
Shimming Applications on Windows Vista 64-Bit
The same question came up two times in 26 minutes (on the same discussion list, no less), so I figured I’d answer it once here as that seems a reasonable indicator that others may have the same question. What is the deal with shimming on Windows Vista Read More...
Why don’t elevated applications receive environment variables set by non-elevated calling process?
I had a conversation with a customer (via email) the other day, and I wanted to to into a bit of detail here explaining what is going on. Essentially, the customer was attempting to pass information to another application while launching it using environment Read More...
Windows Application Compatibility Engagement
I’m apparently going for a record, trying to see if I can spend the entire month of October jet-lagged. So far, so good (just got back from Singapore)… Anyway, I like free stuff as much as far more than the next guy. So, I figured I’d pass this one along Read More...
The Windows SDK Breaks the New TR1 Extensions in Visual Studio 2008 SP1 (Until you Repair It, That Is)
One of the main uses for my blog is to share those little annoyances that I spend hours or days solving and spare you the “fun” of going through this yourself. So, even though this isn’t really about application compatibility, which has kind of become Read More...
CorrectFilePaths Has to Point to a Directory Which Exists
A question came up via comments. (I was going to say that it came up recently, but another glance reveals that it came up in, oh, June. I don’t think I can fairly call that recent…) “…the fix seems only to work if the directory structure exists…” This Read More...
CompatAdmin How Do I Shim Thee? Let Me Count The Ways...
When you come across issues debugging applications, there are typically several ways to solve them. Today, I'm going to pick on our own stuff and throw a few different shims at it. Interestingly enough, what I'm going to be shimming up will be the tool Read More...
10 Minute Demos of Windows Vista Deployment Topics
I haven't seen these pop up yet - if you're looking for a quick demo of several of the tools available to assist in a Windows Vista deployment, you may enjoy the following 10 minute demos: http://download.microsoft.com/download/D/6/9/D6943262-EF5A-4733-8247-9BF7A6FEF299/Application_Compatibility_Demo.wmv Read More...
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