Startup app, run as administrator

hurricane_number_one · Joined: 04 Oct 2007 Posts: 16

I have a program that needs to be run on startup with administrator
privileges. How can this be done and work in Vista? If I require the
application to run with administrator privileges and just create a
shortcut to it in the startup items, it never runs. I can't see any
other way to do this. I don't want to have to prompt the user to
accept each time either. How can I do this??

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Bob Butler · Joined: 04 Oct 2007 Posts: 1081

wrote in message @p25g2000hsf.googlegroups.com...
>I have a program that needs to be run on startup with administrator
> privileges. How can this be done and work in Vista? If I require the
> application to run with administrator privileges and just create a
> shortcut to it in the startup items, it never runs. I can't see any
> other way to do this. I don't want to have to prompt the user to
> accept each time either. How can I do this??

Look into making it a service

hurricane_number_one · Joined: 04 Oct 2007 Posts: 16

If I made it a service, how would I get it to run as an administrator?
Would I have to have the user go in and change the run as option, or
would I be able to programatically set it to run as an admin as long
as I had their windows password?
Thanks.

On Feb 25, 4:24 pm, "Bob Butler" wrote:
> wrote in message
>
> @p25g2000hsf.googlegroups.com...
>
> >I have a program that needs to be run on startup with administrator
> > privileges. How can this be done and work in Vista? If I require the
> > application to run with administrator privileges and just create a
> > shortcut to it in the startup items, it never runs. I can't see any
> > other way to do this. I don't want to have to prompt the user to
> > accept each time either. How can I do this??
>
> Look into making it a service

MikeD · Joined: 04 Oct 2007 Posts: 3348

wrote in message @o10g2000hsf.googlegroups.com...
If I made it a service, how would I get it to run as an administrator?
Would I have to have the user go in and change the run as option, or
would I be able to programatically set it to run as an admin as long
as I had their windows password?

You'd have the service log on using administrator credentials. Take a look
in Services (the Log On tab).

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Mike
Microsoft MVP Visual Basic

Bob Butler · Joined: 04 Oct 2007 Posts: 1081

wrote in message @o10g2000hsf.googlegroups.com...
> If I made it a service, how would I get it to run as an administrator?
> Would I have to have the user go in and change the run as option, or
> would I be able to programatically set it to run as an admin as long
> as I had their windows password?

as long as you know the admin password you can configure it using API calls
CreateService and/or ChangeServiceConfig

IIRC it can also be set using ADSI with
GetObject("WinNT://./,Service")