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Asked: 2026-05-11T08:55:13+00:00

I have a problem, I have an application which has a toolbar icon to

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I have a problem, I have an application which has a toolbar icon to launch the system onscreen keyboard. This all works fine with the exception of Windows Vista and Windows 7 beta. The UAC appears to be getting in the way and preventing the osk.exe from running.

I have read that because it is used on the logon screen it will not prompt the user for authentication. If I turn the UAC off it works, however this is not an option as the customer wants it to run out of the box.

Is there anything I can do to get around this?

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  1. OK, it was more about specifics it turned out.

    I was using Qt’s QProcess::startDetached which I believe uses the CreateProcess function call on windows.

    I changed the code to use the ShellExecute() function call and it works like a charm.

    Strangely…

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