Cool! That's neat....much easier than the manifest approach. Now to find if I can deploy a shortcut with that tick box pre-enabled - thanks Harry, saved me some pain there ;-)
Cheers, JR On 12 September 2013 10:07, Harry Mavromatidis <[email protected]>wrote: > If UAC settings have not been changed, set the compatibility mode to "run as > an administrator." > > > - Sent from a mobile keyboard. Please pardon typos and auto correct > irregularities. > > James Rankin <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Looks like this does the trick (although it seems very complicated to me) > > http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb756929.aspx > > The usual "post query, then find answer" process :-) > > > On 12 September 2013 09:35, James Rankin <[email protected]> wrote: > >> How do you make a program pop up the UAC prompt whenever it is run? >> >> I have a process that I want to put a shortcut to on the user's desktop, >> which is intended to be run by support staff to do various things if the >> user has issues. However, obviously I don't want the user to be able to run >> it themselves, so I was thinking if you could somehow make a program >> require admin credentials (i.e. by popping up the UAC prompt), I would have >> an easy solution to this issue. >> >> However, as I have found, it's not easy to find info on this....what >> criteria does a program have to fill so that UAC fires up every time you >> launch it? >> >> Cheers, >> >> >> >> >> -- >> *James Rankin* >> Technical Consultant (ACA, CCA, MCTS) >> http://appsensebigot.blogspot.co.uk >> > > > > -- > *James Rankin* > Technical Consultant (ACA, CCA, MCTS) > http://appsensebigot.blogspot.co.uk > -- *James Rankin* Technical Consultant (ACA, CCA, MCTS) http://appsensebigot.blogspot.co.uk
