uac

Detect if running as Administrator with or without elevated privileges?

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

Java: run as administrator

You have to create a manifest file that specifies that your application needs administrator permissions. You can include the manifest in your exe or keep it as a separate file (yourapp.exe.manifest) http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb756929.aspx

Request UAC elevation from within a Python script?

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

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

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