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Thanks Jaqueline, I'll try that.

I have an app that writes to the registry and creates an .ini file in the Windows folder. For it to work, I have to run the app as administrator on Windows 8. Surely there must be a way to do it without running as administrator - when I install any other program I'm not required to every time go and...

It seems that other program languages has the same problem - I've been going through some other forums. I managed to achieve my objective with the following: put quote & "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\AppCompatFlags\Layers" & quote into myRegSetting put myRegSetting...

Hi Klaus, Thanks for the quick response, but it does not work. I tried: put "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\AppCompatFlags\Layers\\c:\\windows\\test.exe" into myRegSetting get setRegistry(myRegSetting, "RUNASADMIN") and put "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Wind...

I want to set an application to run as Administrator so I have the following code: put "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\AppCompatFlags\Layers\c:\windows\test.exe" into myRegSetting get setRegistry(myRegSetting, "RUNASADMIN") but then it creates a subkey c: and another...

Might it be running foul of requirement for elevated permissions to run the shell command? I haven't played with the registry for a long time, since XP days. I have just tried with Windows 7 32 bit edition, cannot get either the batch file way or setRegistry way to work. If I open a command prompt ...

Hi Carel, Its sounds like you are running a 64bit version of Windows? LiveCode is a 32bit application so any registry calls will be written to the Wow6432Node registry entry. This is taken care of automatically by Windows. More info on this can be found here- http://www.advancedinstaller.com/user-g...

I did try the setRegistry but couldn't get it to work. Do you maybe have an example?

Thanks,

Carel

I have the following code: set the hideConsoleWindows to false get shell("C:\aa87275\regadd.bat") if it is not empty then answer it Inside the regadd.bat is the following: reg add HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run\ /t REG_SZ /v "test" /d "C:\Windows\test.exe" /f echo xxx >> c:\test....

Thanks everyone, the not responding is now not showing up, but it still takes a few minutes to create one file of approximately 1MB any way to speed this up? Thanks, Carel command createFiles answer "creating files" put 0 into myPercentage set the label of button "installStatus" on card install to "...

I have a stack that creates 10 files of 100KB each, and it counts up 1% for each file (it would be 100 files in the end, but for testing purposes I'm just creating 10 files) - when it gets to 4% it says "not responding" in livecode and as standalone, but then it finish in a few seconds. Is there any...

I'm trying to add a key and value to the registry but it is not working. I tried the following: put shell("reg add HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run /v aaa") get setRegistry("HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run", "aaa","dword") put it The shell part works when I execu...

Never mind, I figured it out:

get the effective fileName of this stack
put it into FileToCopy
revCopyFile FileToCopy, "c:/test"

Watch out Bill Gates, I'm becoming an expert at programming

I'm trying to copy the current stack running to another location: I've tried the following: revCopyFile the sourceFile of this stack, "c:/test" and revCopyFile the sourceFile of this card, "c:/test" but it doesn't work. I tried it from withing Livecode and from a standalone. Please help... Thanks, C...

Thanks for everyone's input. FourthWold: I presume "hide this stack" would work on a Hide button as well, and if I put a checkbox "Do not show this again" (and save settings somewhere in an ".ini" file) and call it from preOpenStack it would work? Could I assign a hotkey to unhide the stack again - ...