“Have you ever seen the rain (on your background image through a Delphi window)?” Ok, sorry to all the Creedence Clearwater Revival fans out there ;-). Today we wanna talk about how to achieve translucent Delphi windows with Windows Vista. I know this does not sound like a big deal for all the lucky owners [...]

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 [...]

Today I want to introduce a really useful application from the examples in JEDI Windows Security Code Library. In Windows Vista there is no possible way to run a program elevated from the command line. But today there is a cure. I call it RunEl, which stands for Run Elevated. This simple program uses Delphi, [...]

Windows Vista contains a new feature that allows an administrator to work with less privileges. Every time a user who belongs to the administrator group logs on, the LogonUser API creates two tokens. One tokens contains the real power of the user and the second contains only restricted access. We call such a token restricted [...]