Re: Unable to run MFC app on Vista with UAC enabled
A c0000005 exception sounds like you may have a place in your code that is
accessing memory beyond the end of an array or with an uninitialized pointer
or something like that. Is there a chance that you have a string somewhere
that has a chance of not being null terminate? Maybe this just happens to
work on XP or Win2K because they are not as rigorous at protecting memory
outside of the user's program. You would, of course, relax this kind of
security by running as Admin or without UAC, but there may be a real bug
that you're just missing.
If you have an idea what the program is doing right before it stops you
could put in log entries around that area to try to pin down where the
problem is occurring.
Tom
"Clayton" <lcajones@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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Application Description:
The Application is a MFC C++ unmanaged code application, which utilizes
Visual Studio .Net 2003 to compile and InstallShield Version 12 to deploy.
The application is intended to be installed on the following Operating
Systems: Windows 2000 sp4; Windows XP sp2; and Windows Vista.
Problem Description:
On Windows Vista, once installed the application executes as expected one
or two times then a failure occurs for every execution thereafter.
The security feature UAC, User Access Control, is enabled before and after
installation, and the installation is performed using an account with
Administrator rights.
Performing "Run as Administrator" on the right click menu does not resolve
the problem and the same error occurs.
The crash details are as follows:
Problem signature:
Problem Event Name: APPCRASH
Application Name: ImageDeposit.exe
Application Version: 4.3.0.3
Application Timestamp: 46d59493
Fault Module Name: Secur32.dll
Fault Module Version: 6.0.6000.16386
Fault Module Timestamp: 4549bdd2
Exception Code: c0000005
Exception Offset: 000021f4
OS Version: 6.0.6000.2.0.0.768.3
Locale ID: 1033
Additional Information 1: 282b
Additional Information 2: 96f82c9a65b406a6ce9e9400f8545391
Additional Information 3: 0afc
Additional Information 4: 5f929daafffe194e86eb6223007ccac0
Current Work-Around:
At this time, using a batch file that copies the executable,
imagedeposit.exe, and executes that copy appears to be an effective means
of running the application as expected.
However, due to the somewhat technical means of implementing the
work-around, a tech-support technician must make the necessary adjustments
to each installation on Windows Vista.
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