With Delphi “Tiburon” CodeGear wants to introduce Unicode-support for the Win32 personality. Unlike C++ Builder which has a preprocessor and thus can at least switch between ANSI and Unicode via a simple preprocessor define, Delphi didn’t have such a (globally available) mechanism in previous versions. And even in C++ Builder you wouldn’t get far with [...]

This little article shows you how to elevate an application using JWSCL.
There are two possible ways to elevate an application :

Elevate the application from the beginning
Elevate special parts of your application

Both ways needs a manifest to be included into your application.
1. Elevate the application from the beginning
The easiest way to elevate an application is to [...]

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This page is all about the Joint Endavour of Delphi Innovators - JEDI. So what we are talking about is all about Delphi and the Windows API. There are plenty articles about C, C++, C# and Visual Basic which describes WinAPI problems everywhere over the Internet.
The JEDI API Library (JWA) contains many Windows C [...]

Some functions (like ExitWindowsEx) need a privilege (SE_SHUTDOWN_NAME) to be enabled to work properly.
With the help of JWSCL this task is made very easy.
JWSCL provides several ways to enable and disable privileges.

Use the methods of TJwSecurityToken
Use the function JWEnablePrivilege
Use the interface IJwPrivilegeScope

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