I went about it with the win32 extensions package, along with some demo code I found. I posted a detailed explanation of the process on this thread. I don’t want to reproduce it all here, but here is the short version (click the foregoing link for the details). Download and install the pywin32 extension. Grab … Read more
The correct solution is given as a short comment by ChristianWimmer above: The desktop must have a security descriptor that allows access to lower integrity level like IE has. Otherwise the GUI cannot access the desktop. – ChristianWimmer Jul 22 ’10 at 17:00 Since the answer is a little bit hidden and there’s no source … Read more
Have a look here: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/powershell/archive/2006/04/25/583235.aspx and here: http://poshcode.org/2226: function Set-Culture([System.Globalization.CultureInfo] $culture) { [System.Threading.Thread]::CurrentThread.CurrentUICulture = $culture [System.Threading.Thread]::CurrentThread.CurrentCulture = $culture } Additional Info To find which values can be used for $culture: This will give you a list of Culture Types: [Enum]::GetValues([System.Globalization.CultureTypes]) Selecting one of the above types (e.g. AllCultures) you can then list the available values … Read more
You have to do following things: 1. Get who is logged in and in this user has an active desktop 2. Get process’ handle started by this user 3. “Steal” credentials from this process 4. Start process with those credentials Following code should do the trick: using System; using System.Text; using System.Security; using System.Management; using … Read more
and three ways without external tools 1.WMIC WMIC DATAFILE WHERE name=”C:\\install.exe” get Version /format:Textvaluelist Pay attention to the double slashes of file name. Ready to use script: @echo off :wmicVersion pathToBinary [variableToSaveTo] setlocal set “item=%~1” set “item=%item:\=\\%” for /f “usebackq delims=” %%a in (`”WMIC DATAFILE WHERE name=”%item%” get Version /format:Textvaluelist”`) do ( for /f “delims=” … Read more
Does anyone have any ideas how to do this better? Personally I don’t know. You mention the Tortoise programs which do a similar thing, so an excellent starting point would be to have a look at what they do in their source 🙂 These look to be the relevant source files that handle this problem: … Read more
OpenProcess(PROCESS_ALL_ACCESS, TRUE, procId); You’ll need to verify that you’re using a valid process ID, and that you’re permitted the access rights you request from the process.
For testing, I set the screensaver to 1 minute and required a password. I tried capturing SC_SCREENSAVE and returning -1 in VB .Net. As commented, it works when there is no screensaver password but fails if the screensaver password is active. (I tried it in Windows XP). I also put this into a Timer’s tick … Read more
I discovered that I could solve my problem using the flag: KEY_WOW64_64KEY , as in: result = RegOpenKeyEx(key, s, 0, KEY_READ|KEY_WOW64_64KEY, &key); For a full explanation: 32-bit and 64-bit Application Data in the Registry
For those of us working in C#, in the Windows SDK there is a “UACDemo” application as a part of the “Cross Technology Samples”. They find if the current user is an administrator using this method: private bool IsAdministrator { get { WindowsIdentity wi = WindowsIdentity.GetCurrent(); WindowsPrincipal wp = new WindowsPrincipal(wi); return wp.IsInRole(WindowsBuiltInRole.Administrator); } } … Read more