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joker
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Re: INI deletions
« Reply #17 on: Nov 26th, 2015, 11:18am » |
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I searched for "%windir%" in LBPE, LB help. Even looked for "windir" without success.
I searched my drive with Explorer for the filename without success.
I copied your code to my computer and executed it. "Result=0".
My first posts on the other forum was about the different way Windows(7) treats "users" versus "administrators" and how LB doesn't handle this very well in the installation process.
Apparently, you operate your computer as an admin. I separate the admin account for admin purposes and run in a non-admin environment so I don't suffer at the hands of viri creators.
That is probably why this function fails on my computer. Ok, that is some information that is useful to me that I forgot about.
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Richard Russell
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Re: INI deletions
« Reply #18 on: Nov 26th, 2015, 11:51am » |
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on Nov 26th, 2015, 11:18am, pnlawrence wrote:| Apparently, you operate your computer as an admin. I separate the admin account for admin purposes and run in a non-admin environment so I don't suffer at the hands of viri creators. |
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By choosing not to take advantage of UAC you are making your life difficult. The benefit of UAC is that you can be logged in as an admin (with the convenience that provides when it comes to installation) without exposing you to the risks of malware.
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I can't think of any situation when it makes sense not to supply a full path when calling one of the WritePrivateProfile... functions. Even if it could create the file in the Windows directory, you would not want it to. INI files almost invariably go in %appdata%, or a subdirectory thereof, so as long as you supply that as the path you should not encounter any unexpected or unwanted behaviour.
In case you're not familiar with it, the function you should be calling to locate %appdata% at runtime is SHGetSpecialFolderLocation, with the parameter CSIDL_APPDATA (26). I would point you to some LB code but all the examples I can find have a memory leak. I'm sure I've seen a version which has this issue fixed, but it was probably at the forum and there's a problem with me searching that... 
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Re: INI deletions
« Reply #19 on: Nov 26th, 2015, 12:09pm » |
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Quote:| By choosing not to take advantage of UAC you are making your life difficult. The benefit of UAC is that you can be logged in as an admin (with the convenience that provides when it comes to installation) without exposing you to the risks of malware. |
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I get notification where I need to approve an action by adding my admin password. It isn't a problem or "difficult".
Apparently, this operation doesn't trigger that process, or I would have understood what was occuring. I don't accept that as a solution that I can propose to my users.
However, I will be making sure there is a valid path specified. There are too many variables, otherwise.
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Re: INI deletions
« Reply #20 on: Nov 26th, 2015, 1:01pm » |
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on Nov 26th, 2015, 12:09pm, pnlawrence wrote:| I get notification where I need to approve an action by adding my admin password. It isn't a problem or "difficult". |
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It can be a problem when installing an application, because it will get installed for your admin account and not for your normal user account. Unless it's one of the few which gives you the choice of installing for 'all users', you can find that it won't run properly because some of the files needed by the application (typically those stored in %appdata%) aren't accessible.
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Only a program with an appropriate manifest (requestedExecutionLevel = "highestAvailable" rather than the usual "asInvoker") will trigger the prompt.
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