Jim Michaels

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  • Comment: shortcut run as admin, run in compatibility mode

    there are some apps that need admin rights, such as XAMPP web server's control panel. when you start and stop Apache web service and the other services with it does the equivalent of "net stop Apache2.2" or "net start Apache2.2" which can only be done with Administrator rights. this is why it's useful. xampp cannot currently be installed on vista and above because of the...

    2012-05-21 22:18:36 PDT in Nullsoft Scriptab...

  • Comment: creating web installers using nsis?

    one would want to know what database executable exactly you are going to execute. also, you need to consider that some people's database has a user account on it. and you don't know their password. well, maybe. it can be detected in my.ini in xampp. it depends upon WHICH installed server package (xampp, bintnami, wampp, lampp,etc) you are working with I suppose... it's likely to be a big...

    2012-05-18 00:23:24 PDT in Nullsoft Scriptab...

  • Comment: shortcut run as admin, run in compatibility mode

    strike that phrase "I must confess that these 2 features only work on vista and above." this is in XP, and is probably in just about every version of windows.

    2012-05-17 17:19:38 PDT in Nullsoft Scriptab...

  • shortcut run as admin, run in compatibility mode

    please add abiility to create shortcuts which can - run as administrator (in XP, it's called "run with different credentials", but that feature may not be available in home edition or media center edition 2005) - run in compatibility mode (this means earlier versions of windows. for windows 7, 8, and vista, this means XP. for XP, this means 9x/me, don't know what it means for 2000)

    2012-05-17 17:18:06 PDT in Nullsoft Scriptab...

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