Community

Hello,
I have a very strange problem.
When i run TextPad from a shell (not as admin), it runs perfectly.
When i try to run TextPad from the Vista surface like Windows Explorer or a link (as admin or not) it shows an access denied error message.
I have run ProcMon from SysInternals and compared the trace of successfully running TextPad and running TextPad with access denied.

CreateFile C:\Windows\System32\user32.dll SUCCESS Desired Access: Read Data/List Directory, Execute/Traverse, Read Attributes, Disposition: Open, Options: Non-Directory File, Complete If Oplocked, Attributes: N, ShareMode: Read, Write, Delete, AllocationSize: n/a, OpenResult: Opened
SetBasicInformationFile C:\Windows\System32\user32.dll SUCCESS CreationTime: 01.01.1601 00:59:59, LastAccessTime: 01.01.1601 00:59:59, LastWriteTime: 01.01.1601 00:59:59, ChangeTime: 01.01.1601 00:59:59, FileAttributes: n/a
QueryAttributeTagFile C:\Windows\System32\user32.dll SUCCESS Attributes: A, ReparseTag: 0x0
QueryFileInternalInformationFile C:\Windows\System32\user32.dll SUCCESS IndexNumber: 0x10000000b10ec
QueryStandardInformationFile C:\Windows\System32\user32.dll SUCCESS AllocationSize: 630'784, EndOfFile: 627'712, NumberOfLinks: 2, DeletePending: False, Directory: False
CreateFile C:\Windows\System32\gdi32.dll SUCCESS Desired Access: Read Data/List Directory, Execute/Traverse, Read Attributes, Disposition: Open, Options: Non-Directory File, Complete If Oplocked, Attributes: N, ShareMode: Read, Write, Delete, AllocationSize: n/a, OpenResult: Opened
SetBasicInformationFile C:\Windows\System32\gdi32.dll SUCCESS CreationTime: 01.01.1601 00:59:59, LastAccessTime: 01.01.1601 00:59:59, LastWriteTime: 01.01.1601 00:59:59, ChangeTime: 01.01.1601 00:59:59, FileAttributes: n/a
QueryAttributeTagFile C:\Windows\System32\gdi32.dll SUCCESS Attributes: A, ReparseTag: 0x0
QueryFileInternalInformationFile C:\Windows\System32\gdi32.dll SUCCESS IndexNumber: 0x10000000b109f
QueryStandardInformationFile C:\Windows\System32\gdi32.dll SUCCESS AllocationSize: 299'008, EndOfFile: 297'472, NumberOfLinks: 2, DeletePending: False, Directory: False

CreateFile C:\Windows\System32\user32.dll ACCESS DENIED Desired Access: Read Data/List Directory, Execute/Traverse, Read Attributes, Disposition: Open, Options: Non-Directory File, Complete If Oplocked, Attributes: N, ShareMode: Read, Write, Delete, AllocationSize: n/a
CreateFile C:\Windows\System32\gdi32.dll ACCESS DENIED Desired Access: Read Data/List Directory, Execute/Traverse, Read Attributes, Disposition: Open, Options: Non-Directory File, Complete If Oplocked, Attributes: N, ShareMode: Read, Write, Delete, AllocationSize: n/a

I have licensed TextPad to be shure not to bothered about this issue.
Does anybody understand the difference between the two traces?
Thanks anyway for your help

I forgot to say that i a running Vista Ultimate 32 Bit
It was Kaspersky Internet Security 10 causing all kinds of problems:
1) TextPad 5 installation never run correctly although an error message was never displayed.
TextPad 5 was not inserted correctly in the windows explorer context menu items 'open with' and 'send to'
2) When i copied TextPad.exe version 5.3.1 to any other directory and run it for the first time, Kaspersky Internet Security 10 asked me if i wanted to allow program execution.
After i agreed, i always could run TextPad.exe from this directory without problems.
3) Kaspersky Internet Security 10 had assigned TextPad.exe version 5.3.1 from the installation directory with strong restrictions.
After manually changing the restrictions to 'fully trusted' TextPad.exe version 5.3.1 from the installation directory was running correctly
4) TextPad 4 Setup could not be run from hard disk, an access denied error occured, see traces below
5) TextPad 4 Setup could be run without problems from memory stick
I will post a bug request at kaspersky and give feedback as soon as i have an answer about this issue.
I am very surprised nobody else was bothered with this problem till now.
Greetings from Maluk

I forgot to say that i had to completey switch off Kaspersky Internet Security 10 to achieve a correct installation of TextPad version 5.3.1.
Afterwards TextPad 5 was inserted correctly in the windows explorer context menu items 'open with' and 'send to'.

Running txpdeu473.exe from the harddisk, resulting in an access denied error:
Process Start SUCCESS Parent PID: 2136
Thread Create SUCCESS Thread ID: 5156
Load Image C:\Windows\System32\ntdll.dll SUCCESS Image Base: 0x77b60000, Image Size: 0x127000
CreateFile C:\Windows\Prefetch\TXPDEU473.EXE-07441CF5.pf NAME NOT FOUND Desired Access: Generic Read, Disposition: Open, Options: Synchronous IO Non-Alert, Attributes: n/a, ShareMode: None, AllocationSize: n/a
Thread Exit SUCCESS User Time: 0.0000000, Kernel Time: 0.0000000
QueryNameInformationFile C:\User\Download\Textpad\Textpad 4.7.3 deutsch\txpdeu473.exe SUCCESS Name: \User\Download\Textpad\Textpad 4.7.3 deutsch\txpdeu473.exe
QueryNameInformationFile C:\Windows\System32\ntdll.dll SUCCESS Name: \Windows\System32\ntdll.dll
Process Exit SUCCESS Exit Status: 1073741845, User Time: 0.0000000, Kernel Time: 0.0000000, Private Bytes: 258'048, Peak Private Bytes: 258'048, Working Set: 73'728, Peak Working Set: 73'728

Running txpdeu473.exe from my memorystick without any problems:
Process Start SUCCESS Parent PID: 2136
Thread Create SUCCESS Thread ID: 5644
Load Image O:\tools\Textpad 4.7.3 deutsch\txpdeu473.exe SUCCESS Image Base: 0x400000, Image Size: 0x42000
Load Image C:\Windows\System32\ntdll.dll SUCCESS Image Base: 0x77b60000, Image Size: 0x127000
CreateFile C:\Windows\Prefetch\TXPDEU473.EXE-46002553.pf SUCCESS Desired Access: Generic Read, Disposition: Open, Options: Synchronous IO Non-Alert, Attributes: n/a, ShareMode: None, AllocationSize: n/a, OpenResult: Opened
QueryStandardInformationFile C:\Windows\Prefetch\TXPDEU473.EXE-46002553.pf SUCCESS AllocationSize: 28'672, EndOfFile: 26'752, NumberOfLinks: 1, DeletePending: False, Directory: False
QueryStandardInformationFile C:\Windows\Prefetch\TXPDEU473.EXE-46002553.pf SUCCESS AllocationSize: 28'672, EndOfFile: 26'752, NumberOfLinks: 1, DeletePending: False, Directory: False
ReadFile C:\Windows\Prefetch\TXPDEU473.EXE-46002553.pf SUCCESS Offset: 0, Length: 26'752
CloseFile C:\Windows\Prefetch\TXPDEU473.EXE-46002553.pf SUCCESS
Greetings from Maluk