Windows Vista UAC Symbol

[Christian Binder]

Hello,

I've got an application, which I'm trying to make Vista-compatible.
My problem is, there is the small four-colored UAC-Symbol on the icon of my application. This means, that my program has to be run with administrative rights.

I've spent a lot of time searching the web to find out, how Windows analyzes my program to know, it can only be run with administrative rights.

Maybe anyone of you knows, which parts of my exe-file Windows is checking to know, that there are admin-rights necessary.
(Maybe API-calls or whatever ...???)

Thank you!

[YarrOfDoom]

I think that whenever your program needs to write to certain parts (like the "program files"-folder, and certainly the "windows"-folder), your program will need administrator-rights to be run.

[Christian Binder]

I think that whenever your program needs to write to certain parts (like the "program files"-folder, and certainly the "windows"-folder), your program will need administrator-rights to be run.

Yes, i know the problem with the paths, but I found a way out of this trouble. I've generated a .manifest-File, which is setting the required User-level and now it works ...

Thank you for your help!

[Plater]

Did you use the ClickOnce security settings to create that manifest file? If not, do you have any more details on the process? (This type of question comes up frequently and I don't have a solid answer to give so far)