[delphizip] Re: Size of new DelphiZip dll
- From: "Engler, Eric" <Eric.Engler@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <delphizip@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 16 Feb 2007 16:46:16 -0500
I've got Vista Ultimate in a VMWare session, and it's a real dog. I gave
it only 780 Meg of RAM and it wants a lot more, so it thrashes my hard
disk a lot. It takes a full 5 minutes to boot, and about 2 or 3 to shut
down.
You can run as admin by right-clicking and selecting "run as admin".
This only works if your userid really has admin privs.=20
There is probably a way to tell it that you trust the key used to sign
the DLL and EXE. I am guessing it can remember that and not prompt every
time. But I don't know how to do that yet. I know how to do that with
Code Access Security in .NET using caspol.exe, so maybe that applies to
Win32 Delphi also? You can tell it to trust any application run from a
certain network zone, or signed by a specific key. It's got a lot of
options so it's extremely hard to figure out exactly which options you
should use.
Vista prompts me so many times that I feel like throwing the computer
out the window! But I understand there's some registry hacks to fix that
nonsense. I haven't had time to research this.
One thing that bugs me a lot is that it prompts every time a web
application reads or writes to the clipboard. We do that a lot in our
company site because we use the clipboard to exchange data with Excel on
the client computer.
-----Original Message-----
From: delphizip-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:delphizip-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of R.Peters
Sent: Friday, February 16, 2007 4:33 PM
To: delphizip@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [delphizip] Re: Size of new DelphiZip dll
I have not managed to do much testing in Vista as yet because I only
have
RC2 and too many crashes.
As far as I can tell it depends upon what privileges the calling program
is
running under plus those of the files being accessed - I think there
will be
more problems show up.
From memory it asked before running on first load or just refused access
to
the files.
Now that the instructions for installing BDS 4.0 in Vista are available
I
may try re-installing it again (don't want to bye it until some more
bugs
are removed and some drivers are available) to do more tests (have more
memory now so that may help with Vista as it does for BDS).
To test I must work out how to run a program at administrator level
without
manually overriding it's privileges and, of course, how to debug that.
- Russell Peters
-----Original Message-----
From: delphizip-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:delphizip-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]
On Behalf Of Engler, Eric
Sent: Saturday, February 17, 2007 6:24 AM
To: delphizip@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [delphizip] Re: Size of new DelphiZip dll
Importance: High
I guess if you don't sign it, Vista will always ask a user if it's ok to
run
the program? Yuck!
Does it only ask when the DLL is first loaded?
-----Original Message-----
From: delphizip-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:delphizip-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of R.Peters
Sent: Friday, February 16, 2007 2:15 PM
To: delphizip@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [delphizip] Re: Size of new DelphiZip dll
It is now made with BDS 4.0 and uses more modern, hopefully safer and
more
secure, libraries.
Signing it only adds about 4K but helps to keep Vista happy.
- Russell Peters
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