elevated-privileges – Tarik Billa

Make Inno Setup installer request privileges elevation only when needed

December 16, 2023 by Tarik

Inno Setup 6 has a built-in support for non-administrative install mode. Basically, you can simply set PrivilegesRequiredOverridesAllowed: [Setup] PrivilegesRequiredOverridesAllowed=dialog Additionally, you will likely want to use the auto* variants of the constants. Notably the {autopf} for the DefaultDirName. [Setup] DefaultDirName={autopf}\My Program The following is my (now obsolete) solution for Inno Setup 5, based on @TLama’s … Read more

How to programmatically gain root privileges?

December 4, 2023 by Tarik

If you need root privileges every time, the best thing is to start your program as root and drop them (in a subprocess) with setuid and setgid. That’s what apache does when it needs to bind to the restricted port 80. If gaining root rights is the exception instead of the rule and the program … Read more

How to use ServerManager to read IIS sites, not IIS express, from class library OR how do elevated processes handle class libraries?

August 6, 2023 by Tarik

Make sure you are adding the reference to the correct Microsoft.Web.Administration, should be v7.0.0.0 that is located under c:\windows\system32\inetsrv\ It looks like you are adding a reference to IIS Express’s Microsoft.Web.Administraiton which will give you that behavior

Running IIS Express with admin privileges

July 28, 2023 by Tarik

For Visual Studio 2015 and 2012 this solution will work. Go to Solution Explorer in Visual Studio, right click the web project and select “Unload Project” Next on the same project, right click and select ‘Edit Project File‘ Find the <DevelopmentServerPort>0</DevelopmentServerPort><IISUrl>http://localhost:56058/</IISUrl> xml tags and and remove them. Reload the project and run. Images to follow:

How to make a batch file delete itself?

May 20, 2023 by Tarik

npocmaka’s answer works, but it generates the following error message: “The batch file cannot be found.” This isn’t a problem if the console window closes when the script terminates, as the message will flash by so fast, no one will see it. But it is very undesirable if the console remains open after the script … Read more

How to run script with elevated privilege on windows

February 5, 2023 by Tarik

Thank you all for your reply. I have got my script working with the module/ script written by Preston Landers way back in 2010. After two days of browsing the internet I could find the script as it was was deeply hidden in pywin32 mailing list. With this script it is easier to check if … Read more

How to request Administrator access inside a batch file

October 13, 2022 by Tarik

This script does the trick! Just paste it into the top of your bat file. If you want to review the output of your script, add a “pause” command at the bottom of your batch file. UPDATE: This script is now slightly edited to support command line arguments and a 64 bit OS. Thank you … Read more

How can I auto-elevate my batch file, so that it requests from UAC administrator rights if required?

October 5, 2022 by Tarik

There is an easy way without the need to use an external tool – it runs fine with Windows 7, 8, 8.1, 10 and 11 and is backwards-compatible too (Windows XP doesn’t have any UAC, thus elevation is not needed – in that case the script just proceeds). Check out this code (I was inspired by the … Read more

How do I force my .NET application to run as administrator?

September 6, 2022 by Tarik

You’ll want to modify the manifest that gets embedded in the program. This works on Visual Studio 2008 and higher: Project + Add New Item, select “Application Manifest File”. Change the <requestedExecutionLevel> element to: <requestedExecutionLevel level=”requireAdministrator” uiAccess=”false” /> The user gets the UAC prompt when they start the program. Use wisely; their patience can wear out quickly.