Subject Re: Windows 8 - dBase 2.8 installation incompatability? From Bruce Beacham <bbeacham@no-plm-lowman.co.uk> Date Sat, 05 Apr 2014 21:42:06 +0100 Newsgroups dbase.getting-started On 05/04/2014 15:00, Pieter van Heerden wrote: >> Of course, the Administrator route means that the user gets asked >> by UAC every time whether the app is OK to be run... > > How do I prevent that question being asked every time the application > is loaded? Only by the unsafe route of switching off UAC on the client's machine.    This is not recommended. > Different apparently manifest files for different operating systems > are included under ...\plus\runtime\ ....,  identigfied as .mf files. > Does dBase or an application automatically select a correct one, > depending on the system it is run on, or does a developer have to > rename those files as .exe.manifest files.  If so, and if the > develper has no control over who uses the application on what system, > how is this problem going to be managed? Using INNO you can supply multiple .manifest files and then use the INNO onlybelowversion  parameter (and its obverse) to install appropriately on the client machine. Bruce