Re: Vista vs Monster Legacy App - [Desparately] Seeking Suggestions

Run the monster app as a service. Then its not run from the context of the
current user account

"Phill W." <p-.-a-.-w-a-r-d-@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:f6vgrf$2u1$1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

(Brace yourselves, people; this one's scary!)

This is what we've "grown" over the last decade or so:

VC++ (6) "Controller" application, from which get launched some 400+ VB6 &
VB'2003 written "Applet" programs.

When the "Controller" starts, it registers a dozen of so local COM
components (effectively using RegSvr32).

Each "Applet" can ask the "Controller" to register any number of DCOM
components that the Applet will use remotely (the Controller shell's out
to CliReg32).

All but a [/very/] few files involved in this are read from network file
shares.

And, just to add insult to injury -
All of the above can be run in any one of four "run modes" (just from
desktop shortcuts), thereby loading (and re-registering) the application
and all the associated COM and DCOM libraries from /different/ locations
on the network.

It's all worked fine for /years/, under '95, '2000 and 'XP.

Now; along comes Vista and ... guess what ...??? :-)

The Powers That Be "insist" that
(a) they "need" UAC to be in place and working properly,
(b) they /don't/ want users to be local Administrators on their own
machines any more, and
(c) want us to mangle this monster so that it /can/ be run by a Standard
User, without any elevation of the "Controller" or any of the "Applets".

Any suggestions ... ???

TIA,
Phill W.


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