EXE not running in Windows 8

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I have developed a software named scanning in VB.NET. Its EXE was running successfully in
Windows XP and in windows 7 but when I test it over windows 8 it gave me the following error :-

System.UnauthorizedAccessException: Access to the registry key 'HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\
PartapScan' is denied at Microsoft.Win32.RegistryKey.Win32Error(Int32 error code,string str) at Microsoft.Win32.RegistryKey.CreateSubKey(string subkey,RegisterKeyPermissionCheck permissionCheck,
RegistrySecurity registrySecurity) at Scanning.ServerSetting.Set_server_in_reg()

Please help....

Posted 29-May-13 23:04pm

ashwani.pandita

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Cycy The Empress · Accepted Answer · 2013-05-29T23:18:00

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Seems like a permission problem to me, try to run your app in with Administrator privileges and see if this still happens. If it doesn't happens anymore, then you know your app needs the Administrator privilege to run (at least this part of the app).

Posted 29-May-13 23:18pm

Cycy The Empress

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ashwani.pandita 30-May-13 5:30am

Thanks a lot sir, But I didn't get it fully. Please guide me how...

VICK 30-May-13 5:57am

Just right click on your app icon and click "Run as Administrator"............

Akinmade Bond · Accepted Answer · 2013-05-30T02:04:00

Your program to needs administrative privileges but the fact that it ran in Windows 7 without any problems still bothers me.

Well, to make your program run as administrator, you could just right click on the EXE and select "Run as administrator"

Or you could do that directly from your Programming IDE by changing the required privilege in your application manifest's file app.manifest

XML

<trustinfo xmlns="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:asm.v2">
    <security>
      <requestedprivileges xmlns="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:asm.v3">
        <!-- UAC Manifest Options
            If you want to change the Windows User Account Control level replace the 
            requestedExecutionLevel node with one of the following.

        <requestedExecutionLevel  level="asInvoker" uiAccess="false" />
        <requestedExecutionLevel  level="requireAdministrator" uiAccess="false" />
        <requestedExecutionLevel  level="highestAvailable" uiAccess="false" />

            Specifying requestedExecutionLevel node will disable file and registry virtualization.
            If you want to utilize File and Registry Virtualization for backward 
            compatibility then delete the requestedExecutionLevel node.
        -->
        <requestedexecutionlevel>level="requireAdministrator" uiAccess="false" />
      </requestedexecutionlevel></requestedprivileges>
    </security> 
</trustinfo>

You can get this from Visual Studio via the Project properties -> Application Tab -> View Windows Settings.