Not sure if this solves the actual problem you're having, but I wrote a small script to relaunch a process as an admin using UAC. Hopefully this helps somehow.
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/11450437/pyuac.py thanks, -Preston On Mon, Apr 25, 2011 at 8:45 PM, Michael ODonnell <odonn...@yahoo.com>wrote: > I have recently migrated to windows 7 from Windows XP. My organization > enables UAC (level 3) at the group policy level and therefore I cannot > disable it. I would like to know where there is a method to make registry > changes using a python script without disabling UAC. For example, I can read > registry hives and keys but I cannot write to them: > > import _winreg > > # Successful read > RegConn = _winreg.ConnectRegistry(None, _winreg.HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE) > keyStr = r'SOFTWARE\Microsoft\NET Framework Setup\NDP\v4\Full\1033' > key = _winreg.OpenKey(RegConn, keyStr, 0, _winreg.KEY_READ | > _winreg.KEY_WOW64_32KEY) > print _winreg.QueryValueEx(key, "Version")[0] > > # Unsuccessful write > > x = _winreg.ConnectRegistry(None, _winreg.HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE) > y = _winreg.OpenKey(x, r"SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Session > Manager\Environment", 0, _winreg.KEY_ALL_ACCESS) > _winreg.SetValueEx(y, "path", 0, _winreg.REG_EXPAND_SZ,path + ";C:\\test") > _winreg.CloseKey(y) > _winreg.CloseKey(x) > > I have compiled my code as an EXE and created a manifest and using the > trustinfo xml node, but this will also not work for me. I am always logged > in as an administrator. Can anyone provide me with some suggestions on how I > can work through this. Also, on a personal Windows 7 64bit machine, if I > disable UAC, I can successfully write to the registry. > > > Thank you, > Mike > _______________________________________________ > python-win32 mailing list > python-win32@python.org > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-win32 >
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