[Qt-interest] Windows 7 and VirtualStore woes

[Nikolay Moskvichev]

Hello, Oliver Demetz
10.09.2009 22:55 you wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> Today I have been shocked by the absolutely needles concept of this 
> f**king VirtualStore.
> 
> Ok. Here is my situation:
> I have two apps: My main app, and an Update-Tool that fetches Updated 
> exe's from the web.
> 
> Everytime my main app starts (as normal user), it writes its 
> applicationVersion string into a plain text file called "VERSION" in the 
> program dir (i.e. c:\Program Files\Myapp\).
> 
> Ok. I found out now, that this file access is redirected to the 
> VirtualStore somwhere in the user home-dir.
> 
> My update-tool - and this is already the problem - is automatically 
> recognised by windows to be necessarily run with admin rights. So if I 


Change your update-tool exe name to smething without "install","setup"
or "update" in file name. When i check it on vista, this funny os
recognise elevate or not app just by executable name.


> click the exe or a shortcut, windows automatically asks me for the rights.
> 
> This leads to the fact that the access to the "VERSION" file is *not* 
> redirected to the virtualStore. Thus, both programs use different files.
> 
> What is the standard way to solve this problem?
> 
> Remark: the best, easiest and simplest way of downgrading to
>          good-old windows xp  is unfortunately impossible in my case ;-)
> 
> 
> Thanks for your help in advance,
> Oliver