blog: autorefresh in admin mode

nikos · Moderator Joined: 07 Feb 2002 Posts: 12346 Location: UK

here's the comment area for today's blog article found at
http://www.zabkat.com/blog/13Jul08-run-as-administrator-autorefresh.htm

desslok · Bronze Member Joined: 16 Jan 2008 Posts: 167

Thanks for the tip.

By the way, What is "some inefficiency in xplorer², which is unwanted for most of the time"? Does it get too technical?

johngalt · Posted: Sun Jul 13, 2008 9:57 am Post subject:

Nikos,

When making screen captures for items that require administrative privileges / elevation of privileges, I found that I can make screen captures by removing the lock desktop feature of UAC temporarily (just long enough to make the screen captures). Perhaps that will hep Wink as well....
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nikos · Moderator Joined: 07 Feb 2002 Posts: 12346 Location: UK

nontroppo · New Member Joined: 04 Feb 2009 Posts: 2

There's a hotfix available from Microsoft that updates shell32.dll to fix this issue.

kb949860

On a Windows XP-based computer, when you start an application by running as another user account, the content in an application's dialog box or menu does not update automatically

On a Windows XP-based computer, you use the Run as option to start an application under a user account other than the current user account that you use to log on to the computer. In this application, you may find that the content in a dialog box or in a menu does not update automatically.