I lock my machine (using <win>-<l>), the screensaver kicks in, I move the
mouse so that the screensaver stops and for a short while I am able to see
the desktop background which I should not be allowed to see since I have not
unlocked the machine, yet. Can anyone else reproduce ...

Hi, I'm wondering how to allow a DLL to self-register when running Regsvr32
in Vista. I'd like to have an elevation prompt appear when Regsvr32 is run
for my DLL, but there seems to be a catch-22 invovled here: If I put the
self-registering behavior into a COM object, this would ...

seeing that via the GUI now all applications have the shift +
right-click popup menu with a Run as administrator entry, is there
any way to achieve the same from command line using good old 'runas'
or with a 'sudo' that will use the same GUI confirmation prompt of

more a "nice to know" question here:
After doing an upgrade from XP SP2 to Vista RTM, it seems what was
previously "C:\Documents and Settings" is now C:\Users, but the
folder "C:\Documents and Settings" is still there. Running cmd.exe

Hey guys.
After reading various posts here, i see the Program Files shouldn't be used
for writing application data to. The problem is, lots of applications which i
use daily do that.

I have Viruscan 11 and Firewall Plus 8 (along with the new Security center
7) working fine without any tweaking in Vista RC2 (5744).

Vista RTM. New install.
I become a little bit crazy when trying to do "simple things" !
I have administrator rigths ans I disabled UAC directly after finishing
installing Vista.

After installing vista ultimate I created a new administrative account and
changed my account type to standard user then disabled UAC.
When I login as my standard user and use Run As Administrator the
application runs with no prompt as my standard user.

I have a application which writes data to the HKLM key. This is system wide
app data, used by all users of the program (regardless of login name etc) in
fact some of it is shared between programs. What am I supposed to do under
Vista - where should I write this data to?, does it ...

I believe I have the situation where a "low" privileged app is sending
windows messages to an IE7 in protected mode and thereby the messages are not
allowed to pass thru.
How can I get these messages to be allow to pass?

I'm very impressed with vista. I like it a lot. I can see that there
was a tremendous amount of work going on and the visuals are very nice.
Lots of eyecandy.
But the main reason I like it, as a developer is the underlying massive

short but significant question: Next to the restriction to write
to "C:\program files" directory are their other restrictions in
that location?
I mean what's the deal with that location if I cannot write lets

Heya Guys, I guess alot of us with Trend Micro antivirus are thinking about
this but what are we to do for antivirus, starting the first of the year. my
subscription is up then. Mcfee sucks, Norton is only offering 30day trial of
theyre beta??? Why?? Symantec needs some help when ...

I think we are in big trouybles with Vista RTM.
I "love" the product and install ot witout any trouble BUT when you begin to
install what you need problems are coming.
UAC is not the spource of the problem for me (I think).

By design, our product has a set of applications which have
"requireAdministrator" in the manifest and a set of other which have
"asInvoker".
These applications use (when needed) a signle multi-use out-proc server