I am thinking to remove "Request administrator rights in Explorer" from the installer.
Administrator privileges are required to open a volume for saving its content in an image file.
They are also required to properly dismount a volume. Without that, the last written data can be lost because they are not flushed into the volume (like with an USB stick). Not a big issue for a ramdisk, but the file system driver can keep various things open because it is not aware that the volume no longer exists.
In any case, this is not clean at all.
Therefore, I see no reason to keep this option. Risking a data loss should never be an option.
I also just added for the next release a new shortcut (for Vista and later) that asks administrative privileges for the Control Panel of the driver.
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I am thinking to remove "Request administrator rights in Explorer" from the installer.
Administrator privileges are required to open a volume for saving its content in an image file.
They are also required to properly dismount a volume. Without that, the last written data can be lost because they are not flushed into the volume (like with an USB stick). Not a big issue for a ramdisk, but the file system driver can keep various things open because it is not aware that the volume no longer exists.
In any case, this is not clean at all.
Therefore, I see no reason to keep this option. Risking a data loss should never be an option.
I also just added for the next release a new shortcut (for Vista and later) that asks administrative privileges for the Control Panel of the driver.