How do I deal with an application that needs Administrator permissions to run, in a non-administrator account?
My application seems to need Administrator permissions to run. When I try to run it on a non-Administrator login, I get the following error:
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Director Player 6.0
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Unable to copy the driver file C:\WINDOWS\dirdib.drv to your Windows directory.
Your disk may be full.
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Is there any way to create a bat file that would somehow launch the application with "Run as Administrator" permissions?
Thanks.
>>>>> Start of error <<<<<<<<<
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Director Player 6.0
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Unable to copy the driver file C:\WINDOWS\dirdib.drv to your Windows directory.
Your disk may be full.
>>>>> End of error <<<<<<<<<
Is there any way to create a bat file that would somehow launch the application with "Run as Administrator" permissions?
Thanks.
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OK ... I tried using "runas.exe ..." It works, except I don't see in the usage any way to supply the password within the batch file that's calling the application. So I'm left with the same problem - I can't have the end-user typing in the administrator password.
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Thanks a lot, sk raja raja! I haven't completely resolved this issue but it's going to take me a while to digest those links. And I think the answers are there.
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2. This is XP ... so no UAC.
3. On my "Properties --> Compatibility" tab I don't see "Always run as Administrator". All I see is "Run this program in Compatibility Mode for ..." with the choices of 2000, NT 4, W98 and W95.
I see "runas.exe" under C:\Windows\System32. Is there a syntax that I can use this in a batch file to launch the application as administrator? I could supply the administrator password in the batch file script, which hopefully would be invisible to the user. Thanks.