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Neal
Neal

Reputation: 9629

Displaying animated GIF in VB6 Form requires Admin privileges with UAC

I added an activeX control that allows me to display an animated gif on a visual basic 6 form to show an ajax style progress spinner. When I run this application on Windows 8 Pro x64, the spinner image will not appear. If I run my application as Administrator, it then appears. I do have a manifest with this program which executes as invoker, I don't want to require this application to have admin rights.

Any ideas as to why an animated gif activeX control would require admin rights and if there is a better way to show something like a simple spinner animated gif?

Thank you.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 942

Answers (1)

Neal
Neal

Reputation: 9629

Thank you Euro Micelli - the Process Monitor was a great idea. It was a UAC conflict that I was able to resolve by modifying the source of the ActiveX control which I discovered I had with the component used. The component was programmed to use App.Path which obviously didn't work when installed in the Windows System32 folder. I coded it to use the Windows Temp folder and it now works.

Upvotes: 1

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