Bug Bounty: 150 $ for solution PDFCreator on Windows Vista
Submitted by philip on Wed, 2007-09-12 14:16.
Hello,
as you all know, PDFCreator currently does not work properly under Windows Vista. The upcoming Version 0.9.5 will have basic Vista support, but the main problem has not been solved.
The problem is, that Vista has a strict security system, that does not allow the way PDFSpooler.exe tries to start PDFCreator under the context of a user.
Is there someone who has already done this under windows Vista?
We have the possibility to do this in C (not C# oder C++) oder in Visual Basic 6.
Any help, hints oder experience is appreciated here, as we have spent several days on this issue without a result.
We are offering a bounty of 150$ for the first one who can solve this.
regards,
Philip
Hi Philip,
Yes, I have tried it and it is working fine with two programs in a corporate environment.
Both applications are realized in VB6. The compiled manifest resource file is added to the VB6 project (so it is included in the executable, and this is the only way it should work).
So I am sure that we will get yours running as well.
Just to rephrase what we are talking about:
Under Vista, in an non-admin context, an application should start without any notification from the Vista UAC. It is assumed that the application is behaving accordingly, meaning:
- it does not write to the registry and if so only to the the HKCU hive
- it does not write to any file (e.g. ini) and if so only to ones located at the appropriate users settings folders (C:\users\...)
If your application is behaving like this, and you get notifications from the Vista UAC, then indeed this should be solvable by including a manifest.
Please confirm that the applications behaves like described above and tell me in what language the application is written. Have you seen the examples I send you via mail?
Cheers,
Martin