Automatically starting a click once application on vista.

by Lawrence 9. September 2009 13:27

While What-Am-I-Doing has been succesfully starts on XP and Windows 7, the user account control stuff has stopped it starting succesfully on vista machines if you're not the administrator.

There's a few people on the web that have been addressing this problem, the info in this post allowed me to fix this issue.

The key things are:

  • On first run create a link to the appref-ms file, and put it in the SOFTWARE\\Microsoft\\Windows\\CurrentVersion\\Run registry key
  • Switch off automatic updates
  • Manage the update in the program.

The only problem with this approach is that if the app is uninstalled then the link is left in the registry key.

 

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