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evoluspencil - issue #275

Stand-alone version requires admin elevation on Windows Vista


Posted on Feb 6, 2011 by Quick Monkey

I don't know why, but the Windows Stand-alone version gives me a UAC pop-up when I launch it, saying I need administrative access to run it. I don't know why, and it makes no sense.

Comment #1

Posted on Apr 28, 2011 by Swift Panda

I use it on Win 7 and the same issue!

Comment #2

Posted on Jun 22, 2011 by Massive Dog

Please provide a fix for this! For what do you need administrator rights?

Comment #3

Posted on Jun 22, 2011 by Grumpy Monkey

I found a work around that seems to work (not fully tested). Create a shortcut to xulrunner.exe in the evolus\pencil\xulrunner.exe

Edit the shortcut, and put " --app ..\app\application.ini" on the end of the target.

It should end up something like:

"C:\Program Files (x86)\Evolus\Pencil\xulrunner\xulrunner.exe" --app ..\app\application.ini

Using this shortcut then lets you run without admin rights.

Comment #4

Posted on Jul 1, 2011 by Massive Horse

Windows 7 x32 it works

"Create a shortcut to xulrunner.exe in the evolus\pencil\xulrunner.exe

Edit the shortcut, and put " --app ..\app\application.ini" on the end of the target.

It should end up something like:

"C:\Program Files (x86)\Evolus\Pencil\xulrunner\xulrunner.exe" --app ..\app\application.ini"

Comment #5

Posted on Sep 23, 2011 by Massive Camel

Windows 7 x64 does not work as described

A XULRunner message box comes up with "Error: couldn't parse application.ini"

Any ideas?

Comment #6

Posted on Sep 23, 2011 by Massive Camel

Ok, it was a trivial problem: The relative path as decribed above does not work when editing the existing shortcut, since this has the "...\Pencil" directory as base, so either change that to the xulrunner directory or change the ini file location to ".\app\application.ini".

Status: New

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Type-Defect Priority-Medium