Windows Vista has some annoying heuristics that look at executables to decide whether they need administrator privileges or not. Unfortunately, these heuristics are fairly brain-damaged.
It seems that putting the word "install" or "update" anywhere in the file name or version properties will trigger the "require administrator elevation" feature in Vista. I had a program that had the word "Updater" in it, which of course frustrated me for a long time as to why Vista wouldn't let me run it as a normal user. I changed "Updater" to "Launcher" and it fixed everything right up.
Oh, and as a side note, don't use the Process class on Windows Vista or Windows Server 2003. Process uses the perf counter to do a lot of its work, which means a normal user can't use it.
Friday, August 3, 2007
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