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
I have some experience making apps Vista Compatible. I can be of help if you'd like. I believe what your looking for is to launch the UI portion as the interactive user and not local system which the port monitor is running as.
I've found this site rather useful:
http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=404082&SiteID=1
Take a look at the CreateProcessAsUser. Using WTSGetActiveConsoleSessionId and WTSQueryUserToken and DuplicateToken so you can launch the process as the appropriate user in the interactive users session.
I'm not clear on how your doing the IPC which could pose another issue.