How to launch a Windows process as 64-bit from 32-bit code?
- by Jonas
To pop up the UAC dialog in Vista when writing to the HKLM registry hive, we opt to not use the Win32 Registry API, as when Vista permissions are lacking, we'd need to relaunch our entire application with administrator rights. Instead, we do this trick:
ShellExecute(hWnd, "runas" /* display UAC prompt on Vista */, windir + "\\Reg", "add…