BETA: PowerArchiver 2023 - 22.10.02

[spwolf]

screenshot please…

[jowood]

Here you are

[spwolf]

oh, welcome to Windows Vista… you can create files in C:\program files\

[spwolf]

we will check for better error message, thanks for reminding me about that

[spwolf]

What version of Vista are you using?

What it does is sends the file to another folder which is somewhere in your Users folder… I need to check better for that…

[jowood]

You can create files in C:\Program Files but you have to deal with UAC. There are other compression programs around which support UAC already. So it should be possible for PA too. :)

I’m using the final RTM build.

[spwolf]

We need to check on that since I have not found anything 2 months ago when looking for it….

[spwolf]

p.s. it should work if you set PA to be started as running under admin, by right clicking on pa.exe… Try if that works?

thanks

[spwolf]

You see, if people dont complain, we will not find out about things that we need fixing, so COMPLAIN!!!

[jowood]

@spwolf:

p.s. it should work if you set PA to be started as running under admin, by right clicking on pa.exe… Try if that works?

thanks

Yes, it works if I set pa.exe to start everytime with admin rights. But now PA requests admin rights on every start. That is not the intention of UAC. PA should only request admin rights if there is a need for.

[spwolf]

@jowood:

Yes, it works if I set pa.exe to start everytime with admin rights. But now PA requests admin rights on every start. That is not the intention of UAC. PA should only request admin rights if there is a need for.

yep… except that UAC doesnt allow for runtime elevation of rights, so you end up with having to redesign how you do everything because of it…

If we could do it at run time, change process rights, while showing an notification window, then it would be easy.

[jowood]

@spwolf:

yep… except that UAC doesnt allow for runtime elevation of rights, so you end up with having to redesign how you do everything because of it…

Try to copy a file with Explorer to the program files dir. Explorer requests elevation and the operation continues.

[spwolf]

@jowood:

Try to copy a file with Explorer to the program files dir. Explorer requests elevation and the operation continues.

as an different process…

[jowood]

@spwolf:

as an different process…

No. Open the task manager and you will see, that no additional explorer.exe is launching…

[spwolf]

@jowood:

No. Open the task manager and you will see, that no additional explorer.exe is launching…

you can elevate com objects, you cant elevate process… You can check it out on MSDN if you wish.

This is done so virus or spyware cant elevate itself half an hour after you clicked on it, and then show you false name in the prompt…

[spwolf]

p.s. we can do that too anyway, it is just not an 5 minute job of elevating the process, rather you have to rewrite how application creates and extracts files (do it outside main PA process).

[jowood]

@spwolf:

you can elevate com objects, you cant elevate process… You can check it out on MSDN if you wish.

Cool, than you have to work with elevated COM objects. :)