Custom Actions under UAC in Vista

By : Heath Stewarts Blog  |    On : 2006 September 26  


Tag : Windows VISTA

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Visual Studio 2005 works for the most part on Windows Vista, but there are some known issues being addressed beyond SP1. One compatibility issue when running on Vista with UAC enabled may actually occur when installing the recently released SP1 beta on certain editions of Visual Studio 2005. User Account Control, or UAC, basically prevents even users in the local Administrators group from being administrators by trimming down their access tokens to remove all but necessary privileges. If an action requi...

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