Vista - RunOnce as Administrator in Vista

Hi,

I am trying to figure out how to run a vbScript in Vista that requires
Administrators access and then reboot and continue with the script.

In the past, I have used the runonce key in the registry to do this.
However, in Vista, even though I log in as an administrator, the
script does not run.

Any ideas. I saw that this question was asked way back in 2007 but
never answered.


TIA,

OldDog

"OldDog" <mikef2691@xxxxxx> wrote in message
news:e2453f30-44c0-4371-ae59-64764bfdc8d8@xxxxxxThe first script (the one that writes to the RunOnce registry key) must run
with Administrator privileges. However, in Vista being logged in as
Administrator is not enough. You must use the "Run as administrator" feature
when you launch the script. For example, you can right click a shortcut to
cmd.exe and select "Run as administrator" and launch the VBScript program in
the elevated command console. The person that logs on after the restart must
be an administrator.

You can right click a *.exe file and select "Run as administrator", but this
option is not available for *.vbs files. I think you must right click either
cmd.exe or a shortcut to cmd.exe to run a VBScript program with enough
privileges to write to HKLM.

If this doesn't work, you may need a manifest.

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Enter this code in the beginning of your script.

If WScript.Arguments.Count = 0 Then
Set ObjShell = CreateObject("Shell.Application")
ObjShell.ShellExecute "wscript.exe", """" & _
WScript.ScriptFullName & """" & " RunAsAdmin", , "runas", 1
Else

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"OldDog" <mikef2691@xxxxxx> wrote in message
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