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!
That's not possible under VISTA.
Vista isolates services in a special Session 0.
http://www.microsoft.com/whdc/system/vista/services.mspx
(download the .doc at this page...)
The only solution is to start a process in the user session at logon (tray-icon), that communicates via inter process communication (Pipes, Sockets, Remoting, DCOM) with the service. This user session process can then start any other process within the users environment.
hth
cu