"Robert J. Hansen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > This is probably because of how Windows Vista has changed how > programs may call other programs. It is a (semi-)known compatibility > issue with Windows Vista; an awful lot of programs are suffering > from some of Vista's 'improvements'.
I think you are being charitable. In reality, you are going to have to scrap almost all your old Windows programs since they will not work with Vista. The people providing binary programs for Vista are going to have to pay the $1000 annual fee for the Microsoft certification to make their program run on Vista. There is a work-around ... but I have only used it for scripts and stand-alone binaries. You run them from a Command Prompt which is running in elevated status: http://www.petri.co.il/vista_command_prompt.htm Follow the link at the bottom for "Quickly open a Command Prompt with elevated credentials in Windows Vista". If you have already done this (actually, I assume you have), then that would be nice to know because that means that any executable that was messaged into existence by another executable even though the first one was running with elevated privileges will be running in lower level capacity (you don't really fork() on Windows). It would be nice to know if you are already using this "trick". So far all I have been dealing with are scripts and stand-alone binary programs (they don't message other binaries into running) which so far the RunAs method makes them continue to work. > For time being, it's best to consider GnuPG on Vista to be > unsupported and not recommended. Again, it isn't GnuPG that isn't recommended. It is VISTA that is unsupported and not recommended! Scamper back to XP if you can. Moses, what you should have considered was a Dell preloaded with Ubuntu Linux. People are missing the whole significance of that move. What that means is that ALL Dell machines and that means even those running Windows Vista are capable of running Ubuntu Linux out of the box. Forget about an embedded sound chip that won't work with Linux (especial significance for laptops). Dell isn't going to have a one-off run of hardware only for Linux. That means that the vendors supplying hardware for all Dell machines have made a commitment of providing their middle-ware (drivers if you prefer) for both Vista and Ubuntu Linux. Let us know if you have tried the RunAs work-around and that it has failed. BTW, this shift by Microsoft hasn't stopped the hackers in Russia and elsewhere - their programs are now certified, and still semi-encrypted to evade detection, and they have began infecting Windows Vista systems. If you ask me, Vista is nothing more than an effort to gouge developers for $1000 per year. I am NOT going to pay that much for some people to run some of my scripts. For large vendors like Symantec, McAfee and others that fee is so low it isn't even pocket change. But for the end user that means scrapping almost all of your existing programs and replacing them with programs that have the certificate to run on Vista. HHH
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