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Diffstat (limited to 'Source/Core/WinUpdater/WinUI.cpp')
| -rw-r--r-- | Source/Core/WinUpdater/WinUI.cpp | 4 |
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/Source/Core/WinUpdater/WinUI.cpp b/Source/Core/WinUpdater/WinUI.cpp index 62b02eb0c0..1671f43457 100644 --- a/Source/Core/WinUpdater/WinUI.cpp +++ b/Source/Core/WinUpdater/WinUI.cpp @@ -253,8 +253,8 @@ void Stop() void LaunchApplication(std::string path) { - // Hack: Launching the updater over the explorer ensures that admin priviliges are dropped. Why? - // Ask Microsoft. + // Indirectly start the application via explorer. This effectively drops admin priviliges because + // explorer is running as current user. ShellExecuteW(nullptr, nullptr, L"explorer.exe", UTF8ToWString(path).c_str(), nullptr, SW_SHOW); } |