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http://www.autoitscript.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=58997 I think this does what you need already.

The whole point of the program i wrote so far is to assist admins who are using various programs that require they have "actual administrator privileges" instead of normal admin privileges that you get when you have UAC enabled. Let me ask this then. Is there anyway to tell my process written in autoit that it should check something without adding another check into the Gui message loop? My concern is that doing so would cause a performance drain on the system. And i had wanted to move away from using checks in the message loop and goto using onevent for everything. Random windoz security rants removed from main body of the response- Now of course some people disable UAC, problem is that you lose the extra layer of protection that Vista provides for IE7, and any random program can have its way with your system then as well. UAC is a good idea but perhaps Microsoft should protect the DDE servers it uses for critical windows functions. In reality if someone is able to get a process they programed running on your system with full admin privileges, restricting a non admin process running under the same user account is not going to help you one bit. Also the secure desktop cripples systems that have several monitors, for instance my system has dual Xeon 5130 chips overclocked to 2.33GHZ with a 1552Mhz FSB 2gb ram and 2 XFX7600GT video cards and it takes it 3+ times longer to display the UAC prompt than a system with half the ram, a Pentium D935, and a cheap 7300 card. I think there isn't going to be any real security until every process has its own virtual workspace, and they decide to rewrite the api's available to programs installed on a system to reject any input that is even slightly incorrect. And i don't mean they need to make a wrapper for what they already have. Sorry microsoft you need to bite the bullet and start from scratch, and stop using the code from win2000 its obvious the guy who programed the original functions left you no usable comments since you can't seem to fix all the problems your having.

I was asking if windows provides a way to stop just any client from connecting to the server. If i understand what i read on MSDN is that calling _DdeNameService advertises the server to every other process on the system. What i don't want is for some random possibly malicious program to take advantage of something i wrote.

Wouldn't changing the ACL just cause the client to always trigger the UAC prompt? And assuming it doesn't trigger the UAC my next question would be is there a way to make sure the server will only accept a connection from just my client?

Why not just use this program. Priority Saver

Anyone? I looked at all the MSDN articles and there isn't very much, if any documentation on security permissions with DDEML.

Is there a restriction in Vista that would make a Client running with normal permissions unable to see a Server running under the same user account, but the Server has full admin permissions(like after the UAC prompt)? I will try to explain it a different way. I added a DDE Server into my Admin Tray app. Then i created a small client that takes input from the command line and sends it to the server then it exits. --This works if both are not run with elevated permissions. When I run Admin Tray with elevated permissions\ high integrity in Vista, the small client app can't connect to the DDE server with its normal integrity level. Yet it works fine if both are running with elevated Permissions\ high integrity. They also work fine when both are run with medium integrity So is there a setting i can change to make it so the server in my app can accept data from a client running a lower integrity lever than itself? Thanks in advance for your help

Hey all, heres the problem. I have an xml file with an xmlns attribute and it for some reason prevents the _XMLDomWrapper UDF from working properly. Anyway i need to replace the line containing the xmlns attribute, but when i do it converts the file to ANSI and i need it to be kept in UCS-2 Little Endian.

Could you show me your xml file so i can test it and correct the code? I was also thinking about doing a dual menu but im not sure about what the fuction of the other menu would be. Id like to make the fuction of the other menu customizable.

If you look at the sig of BugFix in this post, some of his Array2D udfs are actualy in english. http://www.autoit.de/index.php?page=Thread...21589#post21589

Like the vista start menu?

Its easy to add it to the xml file. I added a few new options for running commands with arguments. And there is an example of using defrag in the xml file.

Admin Tray Ver 0.2.0.0 Allows creation of custom systray menus with icons, It can execute single Auto It commands that are stored in the XML file. This is the first script i have posted on the site, so feedback would be very appreciated. *Credits* _XMLDomWrapper.au3 BY: ElTorro ModernMenu.au3 BY: Holger Shell32.au3 BY: kjactive *I used MS XML Notepad 2007 to make the XML file* *You can nest menus in menus and place spacers and items where ever you want. Also the order in which an item or menu appears in the XML file defines where they will appear in the tray.* I would like to encourage everyone to post there XML files for Admin Tray *Future Plans* 1. Move more things to const vars 2. Add error checking 3. Installer that can add the menu to the Task Scheduler to avoid UAC 4. Add Gui to configure the menu 5. Auto redraw the menu when the config file changes. 6. Add more options for how commands are run. *History* Ver 0.2.0.0 12/30/2007 [Full setup file here] 1. Made an Inno setup script 2. Created a small app that will import a login task into Vista for Admin Tray. If its run when the task is already installed it will delete it. If you have trouble with the task import app it might be due to the file encoding of the xml file it imports to the task manager. I'll post the full setup on my site and the scripts here. I know the setup works since i installed it over and over trying out the options. Ver 0.1.2 12/13/2007 1. Fixed spacer positioning 2. Stream Lined the code a little Ver 0.1.1 12/07/2007 1. Added option for running a command with arguments. 2. Added option for running a command hidden, maximized or minimized. 3. Added Text file to explain the options for running a command, and added a XML file to show basic layout. Ver 0.1 12/07/2007 Admin_Tray_Ver_0.1.7z Admin_Tray_Ver_0.1.1.7z Admin_Tray_Ver_0.1.2.7z Admin_Tray_Ver_0.2.0.0.7z

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I have run into another little road block. I tried to use your code as a template to continue the program but i get an error saying "> C:\Program Files\AutoIt3\SciTE\..\autoit3.exe" /ErrorStdOut "C:\Documents and Settings\jim\Desktop\wpitake2.au3" C:\Documents and Settings\jim\Desktop\wpitake2.au3 (37) : ==> Array variable has incorrect number of subscripts or subscript dimension range exceeded.: Until StringLeft($blocksplit[$count], 4) = "'];" Until StringLeft(^ ERROR >Exit code: 0 Time: 0.314oÝ÷ ØéºØ¬jÇèZ0±«­¢+ÙÁɽmÁ¹tõlÌäìܵi¥ÀиÐÈÌäítì)ÍmÁ¹tõlÌäìܵi¥À¥Ì¥±É¡¥ÙÈÝ¥Ñ ¡¥ ½µÁÉÍÍ¥½¸ÉÑ¥¼¸Ìäítì)Õ¥mÁ¹tõlÌäìܵi¥ÀÌäítì)±ÑmÁ¹tõlÌäíåÌÌäítì)ÑmÁ¹tõlÌäíUÑ¥±¥Ñ¥ÌÌäítì)½ÉmÁ¹tõlÌäí¹¼Ìäítì)½¹¥ÍmÁ¹tõlÌäíåÌÌäítì)½¹mÁ¹tõlÌäí¥±á¥ÍÑÌ ÀäÈìÌäìÁɽɵ¥±ÌÀäÈìÀäÈìÀäÈìÌäì¤Ìäítì)µÅmÁ¹tõlÌäìÝÁ¥ÁÑ ÀäÈìÀäÈí%¹Íѱ°ÀäÈìÀäÈìܵi¥À¹áÌäítì)Á¸¬¬oÝ÷ Øë­¦ël¥u·ªº{Î*jºSê.¶­1Dr~º&¶¬)Þjëh×6uid[pn]=['7-Zip']; The reason for this is because i will later use that output for file names and other things, plus it will always be striped of spaces if it comes from that line. Thanks in advance for your help:)