Subject Re: Windows 8 - dBase 2.8 installation incompatability? From Pieter van Heerden <psvh@mweb.co.za> Date Sun, 06 Apr 2014 11:25:54 -0400 Newsgroups dbase.getting-started Bruce Beacham Wrote: > 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 > > I might have looked in the wrong place, but I do not find a onlybelowversion parameter in my version of INNO; mine is linked to 2.8.