Comments on: How to Run Programs Elevated Without Getting the UAC Prompt

By: Peter Dunkley's Blog » Sorting out the home office

Peter Dunkley's Blog » Sorting out the home office — Sat, 23 Jan 2010 22:33:39 +0000

[...] I do not want to disable UAC but I find this behaviour incredibly annoying. Fortunately, I have found a workaround. You can create a scheduled task under Vista which does not run automatically but can be run manually. This task can be set to run at a high privilege level without UAC kicking in and you can create a short-cut to run this as a command. Detailed instructions on using scheduled tasks to bypass UAC can be found here. [...]

By: Erick

Erick — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 02:59:10 +0000

Hey RT,

I tried doing this for regular users on my laptop for a certain program, however I couldn’t managed to make it work.

I tried checking on the task log, it says that the instance is already running, however I couldn’t find any instance of the program on my computer (i also checked via task manager).

Do you have any suggestion or tips for me?

Thanks.

By: Tim

Tim — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 18:05:31 +0000

Thanks for that extra tip RT, and for the original article Ramesh. I’m using this on Windows 7, pinning the schtasks shortcut to the taskbar for easy access. I find that the spawned processes show up under a different taskbar icon.

Some research has shown that this is because schtasks.exe has a different AppUserModelID than e.g. Visual Studio. I have been unable to find a way to change this. It does not appear to be possible to retrieve a system-generated AppId, which I suspect is happening for VS, having been developed prior to Win 7. Setting IsHostApp in HKCR/Applications/schtasks.exe appears to have no effect.

Anyone solved this problem?

By: RT

RT — Sat, 03 Oct 2009 14:31:44 +0000

Hello,
This tip will also work in Windows 7, provided you give the full path to the scheduled task, e.g. SCHTASKS.EXE /Run /TN “My Tasks\Regedit”