Posted by jpluimers on 2015/09/28

Ken jij Frans? Ja, die ken ik wel.
Geen idee wat het betekent, maar toch bij de installatie van de HEMA foto-album software op je Mac gedownload vanaf de Nederlandse HEMA site en ook vrolijk een Nederlandstalige link opent dat het gelukt is:
nouvelle version disponible
Le version 3.3 est disponible. Cetter version va maintnenant être installée.
Het vervolg is niet veel beter: zie hieronder.
Exit HEMA App.
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2015/09/28
I’ve seen this question coming up a few times, and bumped into this at a client recently: the UAC dialog coming up when debugging a 32-bit executable.
This is caused (more details below) by Installer Detection Technology introduced in Windows Vista (with UAC) and tightened in more modern Windows versions.
The solution is to either:
- not include Installer, Patch, Update, Upgrade, Setup, … in your EXE name
- provide a correct manifest to your EXE (getting this right can be hard)
- don’t use x86 as platform target
For software you don’t have source code for, you can alter the manifest with a requestedExecutionLevel element: Fixing the way Vista Auto-detects Installers – Ben’s Writing.
A few links on Installer Detection Technology in Windows:
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