Elevated Program Shortcut without UAC Prompt - Create

You've checked (taskmanager) that utorrent isn't still running?

I've seen this message a lot, when I forget to set the "close utorrent" option (default action on close window is minimise to tray)

jonnyhotchkiss said:

You've checked (taskmanager) that utorrent isn't still running?

I've seen this message a lot, when I forget to set the "close utorrent" option (default action on close window is minimise to tray)

uTorrent is running because I have started it before, when I added a new torrent a few hours back. But when I try to add another torrent, I get this error.

How can I pass an argument into this....
I use alot of AutoHotKey scripts, and have elevated my AutoHotKey.exe file, but when I drop a script onto the elevated shortcut, nothing happens. I need to be able to run all my scripts this way if possible. I'd rather not have to elevate each and every script I create and test.

Any suggestions on passing arguments such as the script to run, through tasksched to my elevated AutoHotKey.exe?

The scripts run if I drop them on the normal Autohotkey shortcut, although with the UAC interupting, I would like to be able to do this without the UAC interupting.

Thanks for any assistance you can provide.

Thanks Brink!

I am uncertain however how that solution would be any better.

This solution works, but needs to be able to accept arguments.

My case is this....
I use an xkeys controller for example, and assign my scripts to each key. Currently, each key launches a script that gets run as admin, and throws a UAC prompt to accept the action. That is unacceptable. If I use the process provided in this thread, I can elevate the scripts to run without the UAC which is acceptable, but I need to do this with maybe hundreds of scripts, of which again, is unacceptable.

I have elevated Autohotkey.exe itself which is necessary to run the raw scripts, but then I need a way for it to accept the script as an argument, so any script run will be done so using the elevated Autohotkey.exe shortcut.

Is that possible?

Bugger!

Thanks anyway.

Perhaps someone else?
I'm looking into it as well, so if I do find an answer, I'll be sure to report back.

Hi Brink ...

First, thanks for the great tutorial.

I just purchased a new PC with Win 7 Home Premium and found the UAC process a bit tedious for programs I run frequently, for example, Search Everything. I followed your tutorial and it's working fine.

However, more often than not, I want to run it from a context menu. Way back in post #'s 10 and 11, I *think* Lebon14 also wanted to do this and you responded with a registry add like this:

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\*\shell\Every Search]
[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\*\shell\Every Search\command]
@=”\”C:\\Users\\Ed\\Desktop\\Every Search.lnk\” \”%1\”"

but obviously with the program (Notepad++) he was concerned with.

My question - if I stuck those three lines in a text editor such as Notepad and changed the file extension to .reg, is that sufficient to correctly update the registry?

Thanks for your help
EdP

Hi, I just mounted the Software hive (TimSW) from a build with Everything installed on... In "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\TimSW\Classes\Folder\shell\Search Everything..." (ie normally HKLM\Software\Classes\folder\shell\Everything) the command key has a string (no name) with

"C:\Program Files\Everything\Everything.exe" -path "%1"

This might work with portable also.. Personally, I'd go for the folder context over desktop context, where the -path parameter is used to refine the "search domain"...

Hope this helps...

One more thing: if you right click on your .lnk file and select open file location, you should get the location of the (everything.exe) target of your shortcut. It's good practice to reference this directly in the reg (what if your shortcut's deleted, or moved?) alt+d and ctrl+c will get you your address (from address bar,to clipboard :)