shell a program as administrator

Question

I am writing a setup program that runs as administrator.  If I shell a program from the setup program will it also run as administrator?

Answer 1

Yes.

Just trying to find the documentation that explains this.

Can't find the documentation but a quote here supports this....
http://www.vistax64.com/vista-account-administration/232825-uac-run.html

"That and the administrative token is inherited by child processes of
that parent. However, subsequent processes created by the limited user
account do not run elevated."


Go and try it out! - :-)

Answer 2

I'll give it a try.  Thanks for your help!

Answer 3

I am writing a setup program that runs as administrator.  If I shell a program from the setup program will it also run as administrator?

Is this a VB.NET or VBScript ?

In vb.bet, you can use processinfo and set the verb to runas

Dim process As System.Diagnostics.Process
 Dim processStartInfo As System.Diagnostics.ProcessStartInfo
 processStartInfo = New System.Diagnostics.ProcessStartInfo
 processStartInfo.FileName = "regedit.exe"
  If System.Environment.OSVersion.Version.Major >= 6 Then ' Windows Vista or higher
  processStartInfo.Verb = "runas" "
   Else
   ' No need to prompt to run as admin
   End If
  processStartInfo.Arguments = ""
  processStartInfo.WindowStyle = System.Diagnostics.ProcessWindowStyle.Normal
  processStartInfo.UseShellExecute = True
  process = System.Diagnostics.Process.Start(processStartInfo)

For VBscript, go to its forum http://www.microsoft.com/communities/newsgroups/list/en-us/default.aspx?dg=microsoft.public.scripting.vbscript

kaymaf

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Answer 4

I'm using VB6 and modifying the setup code.

Answer 5

I'm using VB6 and modifying the setup code.

Try vb6 forum for this issue : http://www.vbforums.com/forumdisplay.php?forumid=1

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Answer 6

Please, help me too.

I'm using this code:

 

 

Dim comando As String = "REG ADD " & Chr(34) & tx_chave.Text & Chr(34) & " /v " & tx_sequencia.Text & " /d " & Chr(34) & tx_Cooperativa.Text & Chr(34) & " /f"

Shell(

 

"cmd.exe /c " & comando)

' comando = REG ADD "HKLM\SOFTWARE\Citrix\ICA Client" /v ClientName /d "NAME" /f

But on Windows Seven or Vista it's doesn't work becouse needs run the shell like administrator. How can i do that?