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
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
It’s not a “problem”, it’s a feature. It’s called User Account Control (UAC), and it’s one of the ways that system security was tightened under Windows Vista. Windows 7 indeed retains a similar security model. There’s absolutely no reason that your application should need to mess with system folders in the first place. As you’ve … Read more
The solution for you is to use EXPLORER.exe process. The idea is to run the process in UN-ELEVATED mode, using windows’s file explorer process explorer.exe (info). Lets say the process that we want to launch is on $TEMP\MyUnElevatedProcess.exe. So, for NSIS code, I will just write: (but can be run in ANY language) Exec ‘”$WINDIR\explorer.exe” … Read more
i would relaunch yourself as elevated, passing command line parameters indicating what elevated thing you want to do. You can then jump right to the appropriate form, or just save your HKLM stuff. function RunAsAdmin(hWnd: HWND; filename: string; Parameters: string): Boolean; { See Step 3: Redesign for UAC Compatibility (UAC) http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb756922.aspx This code is released … Read more
If you want the application to always elevate, you can give it a manifest, either by building one in (not compiling technically) or by putting an external manifest in the same folder as the exe. If you want to decide, as a person, to run it elevated, you right click the exe or short cut … Read more
app.manifest should be like this: <?xml version=”1.0″ encoding=”utf-8″?> <asmv1:assembly manifestVersion=”1.0″ xmlns=”urn:schemas-microsoft-com:asm.v1″ xmlns:asmv1=”urn:schemas-microsoft-com:asm.v1″ xmlns:asmv2=”urn:schemas-microsoft-com:asm.v2″ xmlns:xsi=”http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance”> <assemblyIdentity version=”1.0.0.0″ name=”MyApplication.app” /> <trustInfo xmlns=”urn:schemas-microsoft-com:asm.v2″> <security> <requestedPrivileges xmlns=”urn:schemas-microsoft-com:asm.v3″> <requestedExecutionLevel level=”requireAdministrator” uiAccess=”false” /> </requestedPrivileges> </security> </trustInfo> </asmv1:assembly>
Inno Setup 6 has a built-in support for non-administrative install mode. Basically, you can simply set PrivilegesRequiredOverridesAllowed: [Setup] PrivilegesRequiredOverridesAllowed=commandline dialog Additionally, you will likely want to use the auto* variants of the constants. Notably the {autopf} for the DefaultDirName. [Setup] DefaultDirName={pf}\My Program The following is my (now obsolete) solution for Inno Setup 5, based on … 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.
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