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Jury
Jury

Reputation: 1307

How to configure compatibility mode from a script?

As a part of deployment script I need to add flag "run as admin" for some app. I found where it is configured in registry, but I see that is not enough. For example, I have procexp64.exe in C:\; I'm adding string value C:\procexp64.exe with data ~ RUNASADMIN in registry in HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\AppCompatFlags\Layers. After this I see the checkbox "Run as admin" in exe properties, but actually the app isn't running as admin!

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Ok, I removed my registry modification and configured it manually as show on the pic. The registry value appears back with the same data at the same place. I traced with procmon the modification and found that dllhost does it - it adds only one registry modification and doesn't modify anything on file system. dllhosts's modification works, but my modification - not. What I'm doing wrong?
Seems like it is not enough to add reg value...
Registry virtualization was disabled, user has admin rights. Win Srv 2012 R2.

Upvotes: 4

Views: 966

Answers (1)

RBreuer
RBreuer

Reputation: 1391

Possible duplicate of: How to set "Run this program as an administrator" programmatically

Make sure you choose HKLM or HKCU correcly

You can try

reg.exe Add "HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\AppCompatFlags\Layers" /v "C:\procexp64.exe" /d "RUNASADMIN" /f

or

reg.exe Add "HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\AppCompatFlags\Layers" /v "C:\procexp64.exe" /d "RUNASADMIN" /f

Upvotes: 2

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