elevated-privileges

I am new to wix installer. I have developed a set-up using wix installer for my application and I need to execute a Custom Action to run a command in cmd.exe. In XP it works fine. But in Windows 8 & 7 the cmd prompt needs to be run as administrator. I have googled and found the keywords Elevated Privileges and impersonate might help me. <Package InstallerVersion="200" Compressed="yes" InstallScope="perMachine" InstallPrivileges="elevated"></Package> As you can see above, I used the InstallScope attribute set to perMachine, and I have used Impersonate="No" in the CustomAction element:

I have a system service which creates a helper interactive process as administrator so that it can access some desktop-related resources, including the BlockInput() function and NVIDIA's NVAPI functions, which cannot be run from a service. When the logged on user was a member of Administrators, the following worked: Set privilege levels, including SE_TCB_NAME Get active session ID with WTSGetActiveConsoleSessionId() Get logged on user from session ID with WTSQueryUserToken() GetTokenInformation() with TokenLinkedToken DuplicateTokenEx() with SecurityImpersonation Launch process with

I have a non-interactive service running as a the privileged SYSTEM user on Windows machines, and I need it to launch a given executable as an elevated process. I have managed to launch a child process as SYSTEM, using WTSGetActiveConsoleSessionId(), finding a system process and duplicating it's token. Similarly, I can launch a non-elevated process as a regular user. But I need to launch the process as the regular user, but with elevated privileges - so that I don't have to show UAC, but the process is running as the appropriate user. I am not trying to bypass UAC - since the user already

Is it possible to make a batch file delete its self? I have tried to make it execute another file to delete it but this did not work does any one know how I could do it. The batch file I am using is elevated. My OS is windows 7 32 bit. npocmaka's answer works, but it generates the following error message: " The batch file cannot be found. " This isn't a problem if the console window closes when the script terminates, as the message will flash by so fast, no one will see it. But it is very undesirable if the console remains open after the script terminates. The trick to deleting the file

I want to start a child process (indeed the same, console app) with elevated privileges but with hidden window. I do next: var info = new ProcessStartInfo(Assembly.GetEntryAssembly().Location) { UseShellExecute = true, // ! Verb = "runas", }; var process = new Process { StartInfo = info }; process.Start(); and this works: var identity = new WindowsPrincipal(WindowsIdentity.GetCurrent()); identity.IsInRole(WindowsBuiltInRole.Administrator); // returns true But UseShellExecute = true creates a new window and I also I can't redirect output. So when I do next: var info = new ProcessStartInfo

Can anyone help me with running vbs from itself but with administrator rights? I need rename computer with Windows 8 via VBScript, but it's possible only if I run my script through administrator command line (CMD → Run as Administrator → runScript.vbs). If I start script with classic CMD the computer isn't renamed. My idea is I start script with user rights, without parameters and if there is no parameter, the script re-runs itself with admin rights and with parameter as identificator "I'm admin". Does anyone know how I can do this? Edit: I tried this: If WScript.Arguments.Count = 0 Then Set