[Zynewave]

@pavouk100 wrote:

@Zynewave wrote:

Previous Podium releases were built using the 10 year old (pre-Vista) VS6 compiler. As Podium is now built using the latest Microsoft compiler and libraries, I’m suspecting that something in the Podium process has now become “Vista-aware” and thus enforces the User Access privileges. Probably both Synth1 and Guru are trying to write files in e.g. the Program Files directory, which is not allowed for non-admin user accounts.

I’ve checked, and I believe that the difference is in the embedded manifest. 2.18 contains element, which was not present in previous builds. This manifest element certainly makes the app ‘UAC aware’.

You’re right. That part in the manifest is now generated by default in the VS9 linker. I’ve been revising my build settings in VS9 the last few days, and I noticed that I have the option to disable UAC in the linker options. I wonder if it is a good idea to disable this? :-k There may be other factors in the new build that contributes to the changed behaviour of Synth1/Guru.

@kingtubby: I’ll probably release a 2.19 beta in a few days. I’d appreciate if you could try this out and see if this fixes the Guru problems.