I just had a little fight with Windows 7 about permissions. It seems that it demands that any executable with the word “patch” in the name must be run with administrative privileges. After fighting with it for a few minutes about the absurdity of the problem, I resorted to a simple hack.
- Rename patch.exe to patsh.exe.
- Then create patch.bat in the same directory containing the following command:
@patsh.exe %*
You will never notice a difference, and Windows 7 can go politely F*** itself.
thanks so much for that
That is the most ridiculous piece of nonsense I have ever seen labeled as security.
That explains… Found it so weird that every ‘patch’ that I found for windows required administrator privileges.
Even though I din’t believed it in the first place – I can confirm that any executable, even patchtool.exe will require admistrative privileges and a [OK] confirmation