Hi All,

I'm after a little clarification on getting one of my exe's to run on Vista. To start with my exe is named install.exe which is a bad start and therefore Vista prompts for authorisation.

I have been looking at Calvin Hsia site, http://blogs.msdn.com/calvin_hsia/archive/2007/04/13/add-a-manifest-to-control-your-application-vista-uac-behavior.aspx, which describes adding the manifest into the exe and I have tried this on a VFP9 exe and it works brilliantly.

What I need clarification on is:

Does a VFP6 exe have a Manifest section in the same way as a VFP9 exe? From my investigation it seems that it doesn’t, but I may be wrong.

Does the manifest actually need to be built into the exe, even in VFP6, as I have read in places that having the file in the same directory should be enough? But I can’t get this to work.

I have read that adding the manifest to the exe could cause backward compatibility issues on XP, the dreaded blue screen, has anybody encountered this problem? I believe it’s been fixed but my concern is not all of my existing clients will have the patch.

I could just rename the exe but it will need a few changes and a decent amount of regression testing to ensure I haven’t broken anything else. Adding a manifest file seems to be the easier way and my preferred solution.

Thanks

Jon