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Santiago Bruni - 29 May 2008 13:18 GMT

I want to use the "Run As Administrator" functionality of Windows Vista
(UAC), from a vbScript to call any application.
It is possible?

Thanks.

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Ramesh, MS-MVP - 29 May 2008 13:31 GMT

Yes. Here is a sample script!

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Set objSh = CreateObject("Shell.Application")
objSh.ShellExecute "notepad.exe", "" , "", "runas", 1
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See also:

VBScripts and UAC elevation:
http://www.winhelponline.com/articles/185/1/VBScripts-and-UAC-elevation.html

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Ramesh Srinivasan, Microsoft MVP [Windows Shell/User]
The Winhelponline Blog: http://www.winhelponline.com/blog
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I want to use the "Run As Administrator" functionality of Windows Vista
(UAC), from a vbScript to call any application.
It is possible?

Thanks.

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Santiago Bruni - 29 May 2008 19:53 GMT

Thanks Ramesh!!!
It is possible to pass through the same function User and Password of
Administrator to execute this application?

Regards.

> Yes. Here is a sample script!
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> Thanks.

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Ramesh, MS-MVP - 30 May 2008 03:57 GMT

Nope. I don't think it's possible, especially in the UAC dialog. Perhaps you can repost this question in WSH groups for any alternate solutions.

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Ramesh Srinivasan, Microsoft MVP [Windows Shell/User]
The Winhelponline Blog: http://www.winhelponline.com/blog
Windows® Troubleshooting: http://www.winhelponline.com

Thanks Ramesh!!!
It is possible to pass through the same function User and Password of
Administrator to execute this application?

Regards.

"Ramesh, MS-MVP" wrote:

> Yes. Here is a sample script!
>
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> VBScripts and UAC elevation:
> http://www.winhelponline.com/articles/185/1/VBScripts-and-UAC-elevation.html

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DevilsPGD - 30 May 2008 06:48 GMT

>It is possible to pass through the same function User and Password of
>Administrator to execute this application?

Are you trying to bypass the UAC prompt, or run an application with
administrative privileges after a UAC prompt?

If you can handle waiting a minute or two, you can have a scheduled task
that launches a script to look for an external trigger (existence of a
temporary file would be the easiest) that kicks off the elevated
process.

If you wanted something more real-time and don't need to interact with
the desktop, you could write a service to accomplish your goal.

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