In general, a non-administrator user has this access to the registry: Read/Write to: HKEY_CURRENT_USER Read Only: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT (which is just a link to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Classes) It is possible to change some of these permissions on a key-by-key basis, but it’s extremely rare. You should not have to worry about that. For your purposes, your application … Read more
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Although ICMP uses RAW sockets (which require admin rights on Win2K and later), Microsoft circumvents its own security rules to allow its ICMP APIs to get through. As such, don’t use RAW sockets directly to send your own ICMP ping messages. Use IcmpSendEcho() and related functions instead.
Wooho I finally figured this one out. It’s a bug in Windows 7 and likely in Windows Server 2008 (possibly 64bit versions only). It surfaces when you disable Application Experience service. Re-enabling this service has fixed this problem for me. You can’t imagine how happy I am, this was making programming so frustrating as it’s … Read more
When you log on Windows creates an access token. This identifies you, the groups you are a member of and your privileges. And note that whether a user is an administrator or not is determined by whether the user is a member of the Administrators group. Without UAC, when you run a program it gets … Read more
This answer is a PowerShell translation of an excellent answer to this question How can I use JScript to create a shortcut that uses “Run as Administrator”. In short, you need to read the .lnk file in as an array of bytes. Locate byte 21 (0x15) and change bit 6 (0x20) to 1. This is … Read more
This answer is for those who are wiling to provide administrative privileges to their jars or java classes. After successfully developing an exe to edit files kept in admin. restricted directories, I have developed these steps to follow for you, hope this may help you: Things to understand: 1) Jars won’t be directly compiled with … Read more
As noted by Mattias Nordqvist in the comments below, you can also select the radio button option “Run whether user is logged on or not”. When saving the task, you will be prompted once for the user password. bambams noted that this wouldn’t grant System permissions to the process, and also seems to hide the … Read more
Outfile RequireAdmin.exe RequestExecutionLevel admin ;Require admin rights on NT6+ (When UAC is turned on) !include LogicLib.nsh Function .onInit UserInfo::GetAccountType pop $0 ${If} $0 != “admin” ;Require admin rights on NT4+ MessageBox mb_iconstop “Administrator rights required!” SetErrorLevel 740 ;ERROR_ELEVATION_REQUIRED Quit ${EndIf} FunctionEnd Page InstFiles Section SectionEnd is the basic code I usually recommend to make sure … Read more
Win9x: Everyone is “admin” NT4: OpenThreadToken/OpenProcessToken + GetTokenInformation(…,TokenGroups,…) on DOMAIN_ALIAS_RID_ADMINS SID in a loop 2000+: OpenThreadToken/OpenProcessToken + CheckTokenMembership on DOMAIN_ALIAS_RID_ADMINS SID Other alternatives are: IsUserAnAdmin or AccessCheck Checking the TOKEN_ELEVATION* stuff in the token is not required for testing the current process but it is useful if you need to find out if the user … Read more