I don’t believe that it is possible to elevate the currently running process. It is built into Windows Vista that administrator privileges are given to a process upon startup, as I understand. If you look at various programs that utilise UAC, you should see that they actually launch a separate process each time an administrative … Read more
You need to plug it into the task scheduler, such that it is launched after login of a user, using a user account that has administrative access on the system, with the highest privileges that are afforded to processes launched by that account. This is the implementation that is used to autostart processes with administrative … Read more
Try this out: using Microsoft.Win32; using System; using System.Diagnostics; using System.Runtime.InteropServices; using System.Security.Principal; public static class UacHelper { private const string uacRegistryKey = “Software\\Microsoft\\Windows\\CurrentVersion\\Policies\\System”; private const string uacRegistryValue = “EnableLUA”; private static uint STANDARD_RIGHTS_READ = 0x00020000; private static uint TOKEN_QUERY = 0x0008; private static uint TOKEN_READ = (STANDARD_RIGHTS_READ | TOKEN_QUERY); [DllImport(“advapi32.dll”, SetLastError = true)] [return: … Read more
Try to access the batch files path like this: echo %~dp0 For more information see the following quote from the command for /? that describes how the above command works: You can now use the following optional syntax: %~I – expands %I removing any surrounding quotes (“) %~fI – expands %I to a fully qualified … Read more
As of 2017, an easy method to achieve this is the following: import ctypes, sys def is_admin(): try: return ctypes.windll.shell32.IsUserAnAdmin() except: return False if is_admin(): # Code of your program here else: # Re-run the program with admin rights ctypes.windll.shell32.ShellExecuteW(None, “runas”, sys.executable, ” “.join(sys.argv), None, 1) If you are using Python 2.x, then you should … Read more
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
Yes you can run HttpListener in non-admin mode. All you need to do is grant permissions to the particular URL. e.g. netsh http add urlacl url=http://+:80/MyUri user=DOMAIN\user Documentation is here.
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
In Windows 8, Windows 10, and Windows 11, you have to right-click devenv.exe and select “Troubleshoot compatibility”. Select “Troubleshoot program” Check “The program requires additional permissions” Click “Next” Click “Test the program…” Wait for the program to launch Click “Next” Select “Yes, save these settings for this program” Click “Close” If, when you open Visual … Read more