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VB Forum / Win API / February 2008Startup app, run as administrator
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?? >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 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. > <hurricane_number_...@yahoo.com> wrote in message > [quoted text clipped - 8 lines] > > Look into making it a service 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).  SignatureMike Microsoft MVP Visual Basic > 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://./<name>,Service") |
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