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Wednesday, September 12, 2007 1:49 AM

VirtualStore in Windows Vista

I was researching on one of the issues for my customer and got to read about this registry key. HKCU\Software\Classes\VirtualStore This key will be given to applications on vista who tries to do registry operations which requires admin privileges which
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Wednesday, May 23, 2007 2:41 AM

A referral was returned from the server.

I encountered this strange error while playing with a sample to elevate the executable from the starting. Just imagine, that you require your application to run in admin mode to work successfully; in windows vista, we have the functionality of adding
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Friday, May 04, 2007 7:07 AM

Changes to COM in Windows Vista

The following changes appear in COM in Windows Vista: The COM elevation moniker allows applications that are running under a limited user account (LUA) to activate COM classes with elevated functionality. For more information, please see The COM Elevation
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Saturday, April 28, 2007 9:59 PM

How to programmatically determine whether UAC is enabled or not

The moth says, This is a question I get often: "How can I determine if User Account Control is on or off via code?" The answer I always give: "You are asking the wrong question. Who cares?" The point being that, regardless of whether the user has turned
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