RandyRants: SharpMT on Vista Beta 2

The rants, and occasional raves, from a guy trapped in today's world.

SharpMT on Vista Beta 2

SharpMT: Tuesday, May 23, 2006 at 10:19 PM by Randy

With SharpMT 3.x I tried to use "best practices" when it came to things like network access and security related tasks. It puts the "write-able" files in the right places, asks proper permisisons, etc. I thought I had done a good job. It was OK on XP and on early versions of Vista. Beta 2 however proves to be a stricter arena: SharpMT can't run because it doesn't request permissions to register the Spell Checker OCX on start up.

There is a workaround: go into Windows Explorer, right click on the SharpMT.exe file and select "Run as administrator". This only has to be done once; after this one time registering step, the application will run via the Start Menu or any other SharpMT icon.

Please feel free to report any Vista-specific SharpMT bugs here!

Comments: (2)

(latest)

Posted on: May 24, 2006 at 06:36 AM by Steve

Um, that's kinda weak, no?

Why not, on first run, elevate and prompt with a UAP prompt so it can do it's thing properly. That IS the point of UAP, so you don't "run as administrator".

Posted on: May 24, 2006 at 08:12 AM by Randy

Got me. I think the problem is because I expect it to be able to register the OCX and I don't specifically request it. The rest of the app runs fine without Administrator rights - just the registering of the OCX horks.

What I *should* do is register it on the install, where it already has elevated rights, but again, this worked on XP. I ran it for a while with a limited user account and there were no issues... I think Vista is just taking more rights away than XP has, as the default, and this is one area that I didn't think to check.

Track with co.mments

Post a comment:

Rants

books

digital pity

GeekStuffs

MagnaArt

SharpKeys

SharpMT

Vista

bar

about me

links

software

swag

donate

archives:

by date

by category

recent comments:

Randy on
SharpMT on Vista Beta 2

Steve on
SharpMT on Vista Beta 2

buy this:

stuff:

4.1

Redmond

Whoville

The views expressed on this web site are mine, and mine alone. They do not reflect the views of anyone else, including my employer, and they are not endorsed or approved by anyone other than myself: my opinions are of my own design.