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Posted: **09 Oct 2008 01:19**

After Vista is installed in Vista, a box comes up that asks if VLC was installed correctly, and if not, to use it's reccommended settings. For some reason, Vista thinks VLC isn't designed to run on Vista. It would be great if this wouldn't show up when it is installed on Vista.

Posted: **09 Oct 2008 19:13**

Some older installers cause this if not changed correctly, same applies to nsis which is used for VLC. But it can be fixed.
http://colinnewell.wordpress.com/2008/0 ... ows-vista/

RequestExecutionLevel should be the correct thing. 4.8.1.32 RequestExecutionLevel from http://nsis.sourceforge.net/Docs/Chapter4.html
Now lets hope someone fixes this

Posted: **09 Oct 2008 23:10**

Cool, good find. I don't have the coding or contact know how to do anything about this. It would be great if this could be fixed though!!

Posted: **10 Oct 2008 09:15**

Hi VLC_help, j-b,

Can one of you patch the following XML snippet

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<trustInfo xmlns="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:asm.v2">
  <security>
    <requestedPrivileges>
      <requestedExecutionLevel
        level="asInvoker"
        uiAccess="false"/>
    </requestedPrivileges>
  </security>
</trustInfo>

after the <description> tag but before the <dependency> tag
as shown below in the vlc.exe.manifest file and make an installer for testing in Vista.

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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="yes"?>
<assembly xmlns="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:asm.v1" manifestVersion="1.0">
    <assemblyIdentity
        version="1.0.0.0"
        processorArchitecture="X86"
        name="VideoLAN.VLC"
        type="win32"
    />

    <trustInfo xmlns="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:asm.v2">
        <security>
            <requestedPrivileges>
                <requestedExecutionLevel
                    level="asInvoker"
                    uiAccess="false"/>
            </requestedPrivileges>
        </security>
    </trustInfo>

    <description>see http://www.videolan.org/</description>
    <dependency>
        <dependentAssembly>
	<assemblyIdentity
	    type="win32"
	    name="Microsoft.Windows.Common-Controls"
	    version="6.0.0.0"
	    processorArchitecture="X86"
	    publicKeyToken="6595b64144ccf1df"
	    language="*"
	/>
        </dependentAssembly>
    </dependency>
</assembly>

Posted: **10 Oct 2008 14:53**

I can't commit anything

(I am not official VLC-dev nor do I have commit rights, and that is a good thing)

Posted: **10 Oct 2008 15:39**

Why do we need anything special for Vista... Pfff

Posted: **11 Oct 2008 03:32**

Why do we need anything special for Vista... Pfff

So are you saying that you are not going to look into this?

Posted: **11 Oct 2008 12:21**

Why do we need anything special for Vista... Pfff
So are you saying that you are not going to look into this?

I will, but we have sooo many issues with manifest, that I don't know If I want to.

Posted: **11 Oct 2008 15:50**

Hi j-b,

The manifest is valid for XP and Vista If it works.

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