Run As Administrator from vbScript

[Santiago Bruni]

I want to use the "Run As Administrator" functionality of Windows Vista
(UAC), from a vbScript to call any application.
It is possible?

Thanks.

[Ramesh, MS-MVP]

Yes. Here is a sample script!

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Set objSh = CreateObject("Shell.Application")
objSh.ShellExecute "notepad.exe", "" , "", "runas", 1
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It is possible to pass through the same function User and Password of
Administrator to execute this application?

Nope. I don't think it's possible, especially in the UAC dialog. Perhaps you can repost this question in WSH groups for any alternate solutions.

[DevilsPGD]

Are you trying to bypass the UAC prompt, or run an application with
administrative privileges after a UAC prompt?

If you can handle waiting a minute or two, you can have a scheduled task
that launches a script to look for an external trigger (existence of a
temporary file would be the easiest) that kicks off the elevated
process.

If you wanted something more real-time and don't need to interact with
the desktop, you could write a service to accomplish your goal.

[asogbarco]

I have to do same work for WIN-XP also along with win-7 and vista.
How can I run single script for these OS, or I will have to write different for XP and for vista & 7, if yes then how in xp?

[Villiers]

I am not sure about all the ways that might you help in this. For that run command prompt and then in that use the Runas command. The normal way of a command looks like RunAs /user:YourDomain\Administrator CScript YourVbsFiel.vbs. Once you execute the command it will as for a password to run the vbs script as Administrator.