is it possible to permit Environment Variable creation despite UAC?
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Hi, My problem is i got a particular program that is from the Xp paleolithic era and it want's to make environment variables. Vista isn't letting it, and it doesn't complain, but then a bunch of sdks for it don't work. This is a many-program program that spawns other programs and starts with windows... it'd be a bit tricky to make it all run as administrator... well maybe not but is it possible to just make a exception for UAC so it doesn't care if any program wants to create a Environment Variable?
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Hi, My problem is i got a particular program that is from the Xp paleolithic era and it want's to make environment variables. Vista isn't letting it, and it doesn't complain, but then a bunch of sdks for it don't work. This is a many-program program that spawns other programs and starts with windows... it'd be a bit tricky to make it all run as administrator... well maybe not but is it possible to just make a exception for UAC so it doesn't care if any program wants to create a Environment Variable?
I doubt you can do that - Microsoft have decided to not be leniant about security.. However, I believe that you can elevate certain processes so if you elevate the process(es) that create(s) the Environment Variables then that could work? Hope this helps, --Perspx
"Nowadays, security guys break the Mac every single day. Every single day, they come out with a total exploit, your machine can be taken over totally. I dare anybody to do that once a month on the Windows machine." - Bill Gates
BSoD during a Win98 presentation -
I doubt you can do that - Microsoft have decided to not be leniant about security.. However, I believe that you can elevate certain processes so if you elevate the process(es) that create(s) the Environment Variables then that could work? Hope this helps, --Perspx
"Nowadays, security guys break the Mac every single day. Every single day, they come out with a total exploit, your machine can be taken over totally. I dare anybody to do that once a month on the Windows machine." - Bill Gates
BSoD during a Win98 presentationHi, I guess an elevated process can create EnvVars, but then it will have some trouble launching new non-elevated processes. IIRC there have been some CP articles on that topic lately. :)
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