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I need to get the desktop user's token from my application when it has been run using the "Run As" using an Administrator account. I need to be able to do some operations in the context of the user. Any idea on how to do this?

Can anyone give any advise/pointers on potential problems when porting a windows service to Vista/Server 2008? The service uses the following system APIs: - file management - IO completion ports - device IO control - sockets - WNET API for accessing CIFS shares Thanks!...

While the technology industry is not immune to the troubles facing the U.S economy, it is positioned to weather a downturn, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer said in a talk last week in Santa Clara. "As I travel and talk to people in the industry, I would say given the current circumstances, people still see a certain ...

Crikey. Perhaps I should learn how these things work. But it really doesn't seem worth the effort. Personally I find them worse than the problem they were meant to solve. Anyway, the point is, when I try to run an application on Vista I get this stupid "The application has failed to start because its side by side configuration is incorrect."...

Hi! Is there a way (besides using the file attribute FILE_ATTRIBUTE_OFFLINE) to detect a file is offline? Any help is very much appreciated. Thanks, Thomas

Hi folks, I'm trying to write some code for save and restore locked file with the shadow copy unde WIN XP with the vss sdk 7.2. I've a problem with AddToSnapshotSet(). When I try something like this: VSS_ID pSnapShotId; pBackupComponent->AddToSnapshotSet(pSourceVolumeNa me, GUID_NULL, &pSnapShotId); wprintf...

Hi, I'm working on a pipe server & client program. The pipe server is asynchronous and multithreaded. I used the following method to create the server: // code below is inside the Run() method of the server thread class OVERLAPPED ol; ZeroMemory(&ol, sizeof(OVERLAPPED)); HANDLE hArray[2]; hArray[0] = ol.hEvent = CreateEvent(...

Hi, I have a problem testing my mfc application while using Application Verifier. I have used "CreateProcess" API. Where first parameter is given NULL because the application I want to execute is a 16 bit app. Please go through the following statements..... Object Squatting Vulnerability: Any application that ...

I have VS2005 dotnet C# solution with an embeded win32 project working with interoperability(implemented with pInvoke). I have a few questions- 1. Do they share the same thread? 2. I decided to run the win32 code in a special thread. What should be prefered, to start it from the managed code or from the unmanaged code? Regards...

I am looking for a safe way (either Ring 0 or Ring 3) to read some generic values from PCI config space using an MFC app. The target operating systems are XP, 2003 forward. I've seen a lot of information referencing HalGetBusData and similar methods, but they appear to be legacy and I'd like to make sure whatever solution I...