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Other thing along these lines is UAC. Is it possible to add an exception for an application so that UAC doesnt pop up for that application?

I did some digging through MSDN until I had some grasp (I think) of access rights in Windows. Enough at least to be able to determine the access rights defined on the process in which my printer driver runs. Using calls to GetKernelObjectSecurity with current process handle, GetSecurityDescriptorSacl , GetSecurityDescriptorDacl , and GetExplicitEntriesFromAcl , I was able to retrieve DACL and SACL set on my process. However, I could not...

I am experiencing the same problem. Does anyone know about those programs that claim to do a scan and fix it?

There's a COM interface for what you want to do: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa366415(VS.85).aspx You probably should stick to documented interfaces when possible.  If you had in the XP timeframe, your method would still work on Vista.

Hi everyone.   I can't install Updates for Windows Vista Home Premium. Windows Update encountered an error, code 800736B2 These updates were failed : Security Update for Windows Vista (KB954459,KB955069 , KB957097) Thanks for any help.

You can manifest an application with a requestedExecutionLevel of AsInvoker so that it only runs as a Standard User, that way you will not get a UAC prompt. If, on the other hand, you're asking for an application to elevate with passing through UAC, no that is not possible (for blindingly obvious security reasons).  

Sorry, this is not an answer. I am having the same problem but when I start Windows Update my svchost.exe starts and takes up 25% of my processor. Do you experience the same or similar thing?  

  Impersonation is per thread, so ProcessIdToSessionId won't know which users the threads of the process are impersonating, even if all access checks pass. You wrote you call ImpersonateLoggedOnUser with the user's token.  As you have the token, you could call GetTokenInformation with TokenSessionId.

I have a similar problem. I have an application which opens some activex exe based windows. The new window opens minimized and blinking on the task bar. This is not happening on any other versions of Windows and only the problem with Vista. I think this is the problem with vista security restrictions and not a case of handling the new window as it is mentioned in the above threads. Can you please suggest some thing on this as it is...

Hi,   Busy writing an app which signs messages transferred to a server. I'm using RSACryptoServiceProvider to create a public/private keypair for use with RSACryptoServiceProvider.SignData. That's all good and well, I can export the public key to the server to verify the signature, and all works as advertised.   However, I need to securely store the public/private keypair on the client device, and it seems I have two alternatives...