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@Evan: Â That brings up another issue. Â All you have to do to get administrator access is click 'Yes' on a UAC dialog. Â Surely that MUST be a security hole because really, what kind of attacker would...
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This was a concern with earlier versions of Office which required write access on their program folder tree to enable the built-in Wizards to run.
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@Evan: It probably wouldn't work as well as the Unix version because of the way that Windows handles files in use. Unix will generally allow you to delete in-use files, whereas Windows won't. Yes, I...
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@ErikFExcept Windows isn't using everything important all the time. You'd still really mess up the system.
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I'm a bit confused regarding the recommended place to install DLLs. The guidelines article (msdn.microsoft.com/.../ms997548.aspx) suggests creating a System folder under the application folder and then...
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@RicarDog: it is preferable not to use the DLL search order at all. Â Instead, look up your entry in the App Paths registry key and use it to constuct the full path to the DLL. Â You can then load the...
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That sounds like an uncommonly good customer.
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Good explaination, but I do wonder why whoever designed all this didn't stop and think "surely there has to be a better way than this".It all just seems overcomplicated for simply running a...
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JB, it is a pretty good way to do it. The mechanism (verbs on shell objects) was already in place, and it allows Windows Installer to create shortcuts to things that aren't installed (yet).
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So how do you go about setting command line arguments for items in the games database or MSI database? Ultimately they are executable that do have arguments, is the place for customization just pushed...
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I'm curious: How frequently are there programs whose location can change at any time? I'm sure at least some exist, I've just never noticed any such programs, personally. Is this to cover the case of...
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"If you have a shortcut to an executable, then the LNK file handler says, "Okay, this is a special case...."" Â But most shortcuts are shortcuts to executables (when they are not shortcuts to documents;...
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@JJJ: "All you have to do to get administrator access is click 'Yes' on a UAC dialog. Â Surely that MUST be a security hole because really, what kind of attacker would click "no"?"If you're serious,...
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There is no real reason for the shell to prevent you from changing the icon, its just by design. With a little bit of work it would be possible to support a custom argument string as well (MSI app path...
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Using this indirection might have been very clever and solved a problem for someone, somewhere. But it does make the Games folder virtually useless. Quite a few games have special options to suppress...
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Somebody needs to make an animated GIF with the C spinning.[You can count on reddit. -Raymond]
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That question "Why does the Game Explorer limit customizing command line, target, etc?" was in reference to Windows 7 which unnecessarily restricts that from the shortcut's Properties vs Vista which...
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Oh it wasn't intentional. Just out of frustration. Anyways, I will try to keep my cool. Wish we would give warnings to Microsoft for intentionally removing features.
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"[You didn't notice that Winword.exe moved from the Office14 directory to the Office15 directory? -Raymond]"Well, that's not really at *any time*, that's at *install-time* (a special, magical time...
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Ironically, the first frame of the video showing the genesis of the new logo (http://vimeo.com/53530934) shows that the old logo can be made to be vectorized and nice for a digital age.
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