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[Tekl]

Hi,

AutoIt now has support for Vista's User Access Control (UAC). Will this come to AutoHotkey too?

Or is there a way to use it with DllCall?
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Tekl

[Chris]

If you want a script to run with admin privileges, the following methods may work:

1) Display the properties dialog for AutoHotkey.exe and change it to run as administrator. However, this has the drawback of running all scripts as administrator.

2) According to Wikipedia's entry about Vista's User Account Control, you can have the script re-execute itself via the "RunAs verb". The following might work:

[Roussi Nikolov]

I am using that to reload, by means of a hotkey, my compiled ahk program as administrator. Is there any way to define another similar function reloading an "administrator" program NOT as administrator.

[Chris]

Other than RunAs (which I think you already tried), I don't know -- but maybe someone else knows. If not, some research at MSDN or general web searching is probably needed.

[Tekl]

Hi,

I had the same problem. Beside RunAs, where the logged in user has to enter its password again there's another solution.

I use two scripts. The launcher script has #noicon and just uses the DllCall to run the main script with admin rights. If the main script wants intself startet not as admin it uses SendMessage to tell the launcher script to run the main script normally with the command line parameter /r. The launcher script uses OnMessage to catch those special messages. In the main script I use OnExit to determine if the script will be quitted. While quitting the main script sends a different SendMessage which let the launcher script quit itself.
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Tekl

[Roussi Nikolov]

I thought about using a loader, but when it's a matter of compiled programs without AutoHotkey installed on the machine, this solution doesn't seem elegant since it requires two separate programs running at the same time.

Here is another working, compromise solution, allowing to toggle between two modes:

[Lexikos]

[rousni]

[Chris]

There's something about "Run RunAs" that I think won't work on Vista for this purpose. Perhaps it's the fact that "Run RunAs" is a program (RunAs.exe), not a verb; Vista might require that the verb be used for this purpose.

[ladiko]

now you can compile your script with Compile_AHK and the compiled exe will ask for higher rights if UAC is enabled. look here --> http://www.autohotkey.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=146598