Qt Creator create exes with admin privilegies

lqsa

I haven't done any update on Qt. From today, Qt creates exe files with admin privilegies for new projects. Old projects makes exe files normal.

Why? and, how to restore to create normal exes?

Christian Ehrlicher

Imo this has nothing to do with Qt but with the application name and the user account control stuff. You need to create a proper manifest file (see for example the one needed for patch.exe which has the same problems since ages. e.g. https://github.com/highperformancecoder/scidavis/blob/master/patch.exe.manifest )

lqsa

Sorry, I don't understand. I never created a manifest file for all my projects and always the exe was created normal, without privilegies. Why all new projects creates with it? Any configuration on Qt Creator?

Christian Ehrlicher

As I said in my first post it has nothing to do with qt nor qt-creator but with the name of your executable and the user account control stuff from windows.

JonB

@Christian-Ehrlicher
Are you saying that if @lqsa tries creating a different new project with a different name for his .exe he will not see his problem?

Christian Ehrlicher

@JonB yes, the uac decides on the name of the executable how to handle it (a little but stupid but it's doing this since win7). When it finds 'update' or 'patch' in there (and maybe others) and there is no proper manifest embedded the uac will jump in and ask for admin privileges.

JonB

@Christian-Ehrlicher
I think that knowing if he renames his project/executable the problem will go away will help the OP! :)

lqsa

Yes!!

I had created two projects with the word Updater on the project name. If I put another name without that word, it creates the exes normal.

Thank you very much!!!