Windows 7 - Elevated Program Shortcut without UAC Prompt - Create

You're welcome. I hope that was able to answer your question adequately for you.

I've only tried this utility twice, but it worked fine both times. It's especially good if you have a long, complicated argument to pass. A bit large for what it does, but if you wish to remove it, a monitored install-uninstall showed it uninstalls cleanly.

Thanks, this worked, but a couple of things:

1 - a typo:
2 - it still shows the Shortcut Icon Arrow (I tried your tutorial to remove that a while ago, it actually just made a black square instead). EDIT: Never mind - fixed

Thank you Infinite. Typo corrected.

Thanks Brink great tutorial I understand everything and I think Axematic doing some sought of mistakes that's why its not working..

Sean,

Would it be possible to update the tutorial to include the "run shortcut minimized?" It kept bugging me until I got to page 7 or 8 and found your suggestion to change the Run property in the short-cut build to "Minimize."

That flashing cmd screen was strange until I realized that by running the task directly from the scheduler (right-click run) and it worked perfectly. Knew it had to be the shortcut.

Anyway, thanks for such great tutorials. I just moved from WinXP (forced, not by choice) and Windows 7 is really, really different.

Found this forum and have been practically living here trying to get Windows 7 to function more like XP.

You're most welcome Roxie. Thank you for the suggestion. I added a note box under step 23 for this.

Is there any way to create this sort of task via schtasks? I haven't figured out a combination of parameters to have a named scheduled task sitting there "On demand only", though.

Hello Glenn,

I'm not sure how you would go about it using the schtasks command to create it either with what's required in the tutorial. You might see if this may help.

Schtasks

Depending on what your needs are, you might also take a look at the tutorial below to see if that may work better for you. Once the shortcut is created and setup with the password for the first time, any user (standard or administrator) can use.

Elevated Program Shortcut - Create for Standard User