Daniel Sims Simzy
Simzy
/ RunAsAdminNoUAC.vbs
Created
January 8, 2023 11:18
— forked from codeartery/RunAsAdminNoUAC.vbs
Will run the current VBScript as an administrator without a UAC prompt after the initial setup run.
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| REM:<RunAsAdminNoUAC> | |
| ' Place this code at the top of your VBScript file you'd like to run with admin permissions. | |
| ' When you first run it it will ask for UAC permissions and run and add a task to your Windows 'Task Scheduler' with the name of the script. | |
| ' From here on out the VBScript file name and location should not be changed. | |
| ' Next time you run it, it will be called from the Task Scheduler with admin permissions and thus not prompt for UAC anymore. | |
| ' This script runs with WScript.exe, and does not support command line arguments. | |
| ' To delete the task, use the Windows Task Scheduler. | |
| With CreateObject("WScript.Shell") | |
| If WScript.Arguments.Named.Exists("CreateTask") Then | |
| .Run "schtasks /Create /SC ONCE /TN """ & WScript.ScriptName & """ /TR ""wscript.exe \""" & WScript.ScriptFullName & "\"" /AsAdmin"" /ST 00:01 /IT /F /RL HIGHEST", 0, True |