UAC

[Felix Zumstein]

Pierre,

Apart from the drag and drop issue, there's something else to consider with the exe files: From an account with no admin rights, they can't be started. And on an account with admin rights, Windows 7 is still always annoying with the UAC popup (if not disabled, of course).

However, when I start spyder etc with the batch file from the Winpython/scripts folder, then all works fine: no UAC and fully functional even on a non-admin account.

The exe files from the portablepyhton distribution don't seem to have that problem: they don't call UAC and also work from non-admin accounts.

thx

- Felix

[Pierre Raybaut]

2012/9/22 Felix Zumstein <fzum...@gmail.com>:

> Pierre,
>
> Apart from the drag and drop issue, there's something else to consider with
> the exe files: From an account with no admin rights, they can't be started.
> And on an account with admin rights, Windows 7 is still always annoying with
> the UAC popup (if not disabled, of course).

I think I can solve this one by telling Windows to run the executable
as a simple user.
I've just commit this changeset to fix this:
http://code.google.com/p/winpython/source/detail?r=867925ba4fc2996f395450442e711e909be09cc8

> However, when I start spyder etc with the batch file from the
> Winpython/scripts folder, then all works fine: no UAC and fully functional
> even on a non-admin account.

That's because the default requested execution level with NSIS
executables is the admin level.

> The exe files from the portablepyhton distribution don't seem to have that
> problem: they don't call UAC and also work from non-admin accounts.

Here is a launcher test which should fix this (for 32-bit WinPython):
http://winpython.googlecode.com/files/Spyder_UAC_test.exe

-Pierre

> thx
> - Felix
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[Felix Zumstein]

This fixes it indeed - awesome!

[Pierre Raybaut]

Ok, great, so this will be fixed in RC2.