> With Vista (XP works fine), when using SetValueEx in a script ran by an > administrator I get "Access Denied". I know that's it's due to UAC so > does someone know how to do a 'sudo' when using something else than > CreateProcess ?
The short version of my understanding of Vista and UAC: Firstly, an existing process can not be elevated - once you are running, you are out of luck - your option is, basically, re-execute yourself requesting elevation and have the new process retry the operation (the exception is when you are using a COM object - in which case you can ask for an "elevated" COM object - but that is rare, so I'm treating it as the exception :) If you want to reexecute yourself, IIUC you are limited to calling ShellExecute(Ex), with the "verb" set to "runas" - which can be a PITA, but I'm not aware of other options. My current best guess for when you might *need* to do this if is win32com.shell.IsUserAnAdmin() returns true (which needs pywin32-211, which I promise is in the process of being tested right now :) As Tim said though, please read MSDN and all other references you can find, and please correct me if I'm wrong/mistaken/confused/etc for everyone elses benefit... Cheers, Mark _______________________________________________ python-win32 mailing list python-win32@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-win32