Vista - How to modify "Program Files" from the command prompt with UAC on?

Can anybody let me know if there's a way to do this?


Unigraphics 4.0. Comes with a 4.0.3.3 maintenance update CD.

Said CD runs a batch file that essentially runs a series of extractable
archive files to update files within the "UGS" Program Files directory.

Problem is -- with UAC on -- you can't modify *anything* in Program
Files without authentication.

And said authentication doesn't prompt if you run a batch file/use the
command prompt window as far as I can tell.



I tried to run the batch file "as administrator", but the command
prompt window only briefly popped up, then disappeared.


Turning UAC off -- worked fine.


Anybody have any suggestions (short of turning UAC off -- which I'm
leaning more and more toward every day) for how somebody would instruct
users to install a set of patches like this?


Thanks!

- Steve

Run a command prompt window as Administrator and then try running the batch
file from within that window.

steve

"Steve Maser" <maser@umich.edu> wrote in message
news:100120071447503633%maser@umich.edu...
> Can anybody let me know if there's a way to do this?
>
>
> Unigraphics 4.0. Comes with a 4.0.3.3 maintenance update CD.
>
> Said CD runs a batch file that essentially runs a series of extractable
> archive files to update files within the "UGS" Program Files directory.
>
> Problem is -- with UAC on -- you can't modify *anything* in Program
> Files without authentication.
>
> And said authentication doesn't prompt if you run a batch file/use the
> command prompt window as far as I can tell.
>
>
>
> I tried to run the batch file "as administrator", but the command
> prompt window only briefly popped up, then disappeared.
>
>
> Turning UAC off -- worked fine.
>
>
> Anybody have any suggestions (short of turning UAC off -- which I'm
> leaning more and more toward every day) for how somebody would instruct
> users to install a set of patches like this?
>
>
> Thanks!
>
> - Steve

In article <EC661AF4-84F4-4594-97DB-697041102B27@microsoft.com>, Steve
Cochran <scochran@oehelp.com> wrote:

> Run a command prompt window as Administrator and then try running the batch
> file from within that window.
>
> steve
>


Ah, right -- that worked.

I kept hitting on the *batch file* and trying to run *that* as
administrator.

Duh.

Thanks for the reminder...

- Steve

Glad to hear it. Seems like there should be a switch you could use to just
run the batch file that way.

Probably is.

steve

"Steve Maser" <maser@umich.edu> wrote in message
news:100120071602352817%maser@umich.edu...
> In article <EC661AF4-84F4-4594-97DB-697041102B27@microsoft.com>, Steve
> Cochran <scochran@oehelp.com> wrote:
>
>> Run a command prompt window as Administrator and then try running the
>> batch
>> file from within that window.
>>
>> steve
>>
>
>
> Ah, right -- that worked.
>
> I kept hitting on the *batch file* and trying to run *that* as
> administrator.
>
> Duh.
>
> Thanks for the reminder...
>
> - Steve