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Perulo
Perulo

Reputation: 69

Check UAC status

How to script a batch file that would run a check whether or not UAC is enabled by:

REG QUERY HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\System\ /v EnableLUA

It is enabled if the result is:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\System EnableLUA    REG_DWORD    **0x1**)

and it is disabled if the result is: 

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\System EnableLUA    REG_DWORD    **0x0**)

The script should then run different commands according to the result.

Upvotes: 5

Views: 7798

Answers (2)

ScriptKidd
ScriptKidd

Reputation: 851

Check out the Microsoft documentation about EnableLUA here:

@echo off
for /f "skip=2 tokens=3" %%a in ('reg query HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\System /v EnableLUA') do if "%%a" equ "0x0" (
rem When UAC is disabled
) ELSE (
rem When UAC is enabled
)

Upvotes: 1

Andriy M
Andriy M

Reputation: 77707

You could simply search for one or the other value with either FIND or FINDSTR and invoke commands depending on the result of the search. The pattern would basically be like this:

REG QUERY HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\System\ /v EnableLUA | (
  FIND "0x1" >NUL
) && (
  command(s)_to_run_when_UAC_is_enabled
) || (
  command(s)_to_run_when_UAC_is_disabled
)

I.e. the REG produces an output which is passed, using the "pipe" (|) to the input of FIND. FIND looks for 0x1 in its input, and, depending on the result of the search, one of the following bracketed blocks of commands is executed.

The command && command || command is a standard mechanism that allows you to selectively run commands, a kind of replacement for IF. The first command produces a result. The command just after && runs if the result is "success", and the command just after || runs in case of a fail.

If you need to perform actions in both cases, use both && and || after the command generating the result, but if only one kind of result should be reacted to, you can leave out either && or ||.

Upvotes: 2

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