execute under admin ?

[dark_shadow]

hey all i'm working on a prorgram for my dad's company and i came across a little problem ... it will set to run when the computer starts up but its a call center so those who use the computers dont have admin rights and the program needs to write to the registry and considering all the admin passwords are different i suggested creating a seperate network account that has local admin and have the program run using those crednetials my questions are 1) cant it be done? if so how would it be done ? and second is there any other ways that you can suggest that would / could be easier?

[Andrew G]

You can run a program under a person's account while being in a different account. Just right click the program and select "Run As..." then select the account and password and your set.

Edit: Forgot to say it only works for XP and 2000
Edit version 2.0: To enable it if it isn't http://support.microsoft.com/kb/294676

[dark_shadow]

hmm alright that's another senario but...will that work for network accounts? and that may get a bit annoying as we have about 300 computers

[Andrew G]

I'm really not sure if this will work for network accounts... I've never used the "Run As..." feature before as I just have one account here, so I really don't know any more about it.

[thegreatone]

IT works with network accounts, so that's one option at least

[dark_shadow]

good hmm so that's one of the options so if anyone has any other suggestions please post em and we'll discuss them

[zynder]

Where do you plan to install your program? Will it be installed on the network for everybody or installed locally?

If you're having trouble with rights/restrictions, you can set the permission of your program's folder to Full Control. That is, if you installed it locally.