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 More options May 16 2008, 9:13 pm
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From: "Ralph" <nt_consultin...@yahoo.com>
Date: Fri, 16 May 2008 20:13:41 -0500
Local: Fri, May 16 2008 9:13 pm
Subject: Re: Can a VB6 application 'promote' itself?
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"PeterD" <pet...@hipson.net> wrote in message

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> Can a VB6 application 'promote' itself?

> For example, the application's manifest has 'asInvoker' and later in
> the program's execution it needs to do something that requires
> 'requireAdministrator' is it possible to promote to administrator or
> not?

> Has anyone tried something (stupid?) like this? <bg>

You can't 'promote' the process, but you can go off and do Administrative
things (spawn, etc) - but not without some kind of outside help (built-in or
interactive).

However, you probably don't want to do this. <g>

-ralph


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