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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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 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 ...