Embed manifest to exe failing with argument invalid

Question

I want to add a manifest to .exe file so it stops asking users to run as administrator in Windows 7.

I followed this tutorial which seems to do exactly what I want to accomplish except I get this error when I do the same and I cannot find a solution for it:

mt.exe : general error c101008d: Failed to write the updated manifest to the resource of file "C:\install.exe". The parameter is incorrect.

this is the command I used:

mt.exe –manifest C:\install.exe.manifest -outputresource:C:\install.exe;1

Any help would be really appreciated, thank you.

Answer 1

This is how I solved this problem, it was actually a syntax issue:

mt.exe –manifest "C:\install.exe.manifest" -outputresource:"C:\install.exe;#1"

There is an even better solution is to edit the .exe directly using visual studio.