[Qt-interest] Registry Virtualization in Windows Vista and QSettings

[Marco Borm]

Adding a manifest with requestedExecutionLevel to your application 
disables any of these "legacy application"-visualization.
At least every developer which tries to access non-user specific 
configuration or files should add a manifest, so just do the same.

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb756929.aspx


Marco

Anthony Serdyukov wrote:
> Good day.
>
> I have met a little problem. Consider the following code.
>
> QSettings setting(QSettings::SystemScope, "MyOrg", "MyApp");
> qDebug() << settings.isWritable();
>
> It always print true despite of whether it is run by an elevated user
> or not. I guess the cause is Registry Virtualization
> (http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb530198.aspx).
>
> Does anybody know, is there any way to truly detect write access
> possibility? Or perhaps detect whether current process is run in an
> elevated mode?
>
> Regards,
> Anthony
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