A Blog for Graymad

Sure, both of those solutions would probably work...but only if you know enough to know why the software's failing in the first place. If you don't know that going in, how are you going to know to install to a different directory? And like the suggestions made by Drew, these are workarounds, not true solutions. As such, they really don't address the larger issue of getting developers to test their software and make it run without elevated privileges, and without having to resort to workarounds or hacks.

My new books, Microsoft® ASP.NET Programming with Microsoft Visual Basic® .NET Version 2003 Step By Step and Microsoft® ASP.NET Programming with Microsoft Visual C#® .NET Version 2003 Step By Step, have been released.

Seems to work pretty well, with one caveat. Since I'm running w.bloggar using Run As... and an admin account, I have to run WMP with the same credentials in order to get the plug-in to work.

Now, Drew is correct about the fix. But this only highlights my point. Applications aren't supposed to write user data to the Program Files tree in the first place. That's what the user's folder under the Documents and Settings folder is for. If w.bloggar wrote to the user's MyDocuments folder instead (or to the Application Data or Local Settings folders under the user's root folder), there would be no need for loosening the permissions on the w.bloggar install directory or running as admin to get it to work right.

As I'm guessing some of you might have noticed, I've been absent from the blog world for a while. As Julia pointed out, this is because a couple of weeks ago, my son was born. His name is Joseph Andrew, and as one would expect, he's been taking up quite a lot of his daddy's time and attention of late. So if my blog entries are a little few and far between for a while, now you know why. :-)

Writing this post from w.bloggar. Nice UI, and good features (I especially like being able to easily post links to a new window, which has been a pain until now), but it breaks one of my primary pet peeves these days...it must be run using an administrator account in order for it to function properly.

Quoth Robert :

OK. I think I solved the problem I was seeing with BlogThis and SharpReader, thanks to some advice from Scott. The value for the "Key" key must be the value that you get from the URL for your own key. That is, you must: