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Re: Operation Requires Elevation

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  Under normal conditions you don't have access to much
other than the user App Data folder on Vista/7. I was
recently testing a VBScript on Win7 that creates and
uses an IE instance as an HTA. I had no problem with
that, but Win7 wouldn't let me, as Admin, put an image
file on C drive (needed for the test) without elevation!

   When it comes to Vista/7, with the exception of
whatever you set up during program install, you have to
assume that you're running as a corporate employee who
has no right to do anything but send email or write MS
Office files that are auto-saved to their docs folder. That
employee is not even supposed to know about the file
system (from Microsoft's point of view), and Windows/MS
Office is increasingly designed to enforce that.

  You can change permissions programmatically on your
program subfolders during install. That's what I do, so that
I have a location to work with temp files, etc. Or you can
create a folder in App Data and then don't try to do
anything anywhere else. The standard protocol for that is
to create a company folder first, so it would be like:
...\CompanyName\ProgramName\Templates\

|
| One W7 machine recently fried it's HDD and had to be
| completely re-installed from scratch.
|
| It is running my app. from a share on a Vista machine.
| After a few stumbles we finally persuaded it to run Fine,
| except when it wants to generate an output via an excel
| template.
|
| Code snipet:
|
| Set oExcel = New Excel.Application
| Set oWB = oExcel.Workbooks.Open(sFile)
| Set oWS = oWB.ActiveSheet
|
| 'sFile' is a .xlt file in app.path\Templates on the server.
|
| This machine fails every time, and my error log reports:
| "the requested operation requires elevation"
|
| -- 
| Rob Pearson
|
|
|

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Operation Requires Elevation R C Nesbit <spam@ukrm.net> - 2012-03-29 13:42 +0100
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  Re: Operation Requires Elevation ralph <nt_consulting64@yahoo.net> - 2012-03-29 08:33 -0500

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