Correct Installation under Vista

[gopackgo]

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.

[VLC_help]

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

[gopackgo]

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!!

[Chuen]

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>

[VLC_help]

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

[Jean-Baptiste Kempf]

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

[gopackgo]

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

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

[Jean-Baptiste Kempf]

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.

[Chuen]

Hi j-b,

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