Run As Administrator Shortcut Without Password Prompt

Question

I have installed a program on Windows 7 that needs Admin rights to run properly. When running on Windows XP; I used the runas command with the savecred switch to create a shortcut that opened the application and run as Administrator without prompting for a password.

I have tried the most options found on the internet with the properties dialogue of the shortcut and messed around with the Scheduled Tasks option, but to no avail.I am running Windows 7 Home Premium, 32-bit.

I have programs installed on my computer that have a Administrator Icon Overlay and seam to run as Admin without prompting for credentials. How can I achieve the same manually?

Solution 1

I believe Task Scheduler should do it.

"How to Create a Elevated Program Shortcut without a UAC Prompt"

http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/11949-elevated-program-shortcut-without-uac-prompt-create.html

Other possibilities:

"How to Run a Program as an Administrator in Windows 7"

http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/11841-run-administrator.html

Solution 2

Try messing around with "cacls" and "icacls" in cmd.

1.) Command + R

2.) icacls /?

3.) cacls /?

This allows you to elevate the permissions of a certain file/directory. I use the command, "icacls :(F,MA,GA,GE,X,AS)

Comments

[edusysadmin]

Could you list the application(s) which behave this way?

[sinni800]

It will still give you the UAC prompt and prompt you for the administrator password, so, no.

[Olivier.Roger]

This would be a great answer if you provided a powershell snippet to demonstrate.

[Karan]

There's also sevenforums.com/tutorials/…

[Ben]

The idea is clever: creating a task with stored admin password, then running the task via a shortcut. But for GUI applications, it only works if you're already logged in as the user the task is created for. Otherwise the GUI never shows up.

[Sildoreth]

Link-only answers are not good answers.