how to write to registry without admin rights on win vista/7

miamia

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Jun 24, 2011, 4:08:55 AM6/24/11

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Hello,

In my program I can set to run after system startup (it writes path to
Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run) but when normal user is
logged in my application crashes. I must right click on app an choose
"Run As Admin" and then everything works.

How can I do it to write to registry without "Run As Admin" ?

Duncan Booth

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Jun 24, 2011, 4:48:19 AM6/24/11

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miamia <peteri...@gmail.com> wrote:

This might give you some pointers:

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/130763/request-uac-elevation-from-within-a-python-script

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Duncan Booth http://kupuguy.blogspot.com

Andrew Berg

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Jun 24, 2011, 3:02:54 PM6/24/11

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On 2011.06.24 03:48 AM, Duncan Booth wrote:
> http://stackoverflow.com/questions/130763/request-uac-elevation-from-within-a-python-script
Heh. On Windows 7, using 'runas' for the operation in os.startfile()
gives me a normal UAC prompt.

Is there any way to ask for elevation from a subprocess.Popen() call?
Launching an application that normally asks for elevation automatically
fails with error 740 - 'The requested operation requires elevation'. The
runas utility needs an explicit username.

Andrew Berg

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Jun 24, 2011, 8:20:00 PM6/24/11

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On 2011.06.24 03:48 AM, Duncan Booth wrote:
> http://stackoverflow.com/questions/130763/request-uac-elevation-from-within-a-python-script
Heh. On Windows 7, using 'runas' for the operation in os.startfile()
gives me a normal UAC prompt.

Is there any way to ask for elevation from a subprocess.Popen() call?

Launching an application that normally automatically asks for elevation

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Thorsten Kampe

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Jun 25, 2011, 1:48:09 AM6/25/11

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* miamia (Fri, 24 Jun 2011 01:08:55 -0700 (PDT))

> In my program I can set to run after system startup (it writes path to
> Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run)

Under HKLM oder HKCU? The path itself is of course irrelevant.

> but when normal user is logged in my application crashes.

Without an exception?

> I must right click on app an choose "Run As Admin" and then everything
> works.
>
> How can I do it to write to registry without "Run As Admin" ?

Disable UAC.

Thorsten

Thorsten Kampe

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Jun 25, 2011, 2:03:28 AM6/25/11

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* Andrew Berg (Fri, 24 Jun 2011 14:02:54 -0500)

> On 2011.06.24 03:48 AM, Duncan Booth wrote:
> > http://stackoverflow.com/questions/130763/request-uac-elevation-from-within-a-python-script
> Heh. On Windows 7, using 'runas' for the operation in os.startfile()
> gives me a normal UAC prompt.

That is because UAC for non-admin accounts /is/ runas.

Thorsten