Run .au3 script as Admin: no option in menu

[remin]

I created a script and I'm ready to launch it at windows start-up and want to do it as Admin in order to use the script also when a window has UAC enabled.

But...

- When I right click on the file there is No option "Run as Administrator" 

- I tried to add the file to task scheduler with elevated rights, but when I run the task it edits the file (in SciTE4)

- When I push down the CTRL & SHIFT key and click the script file, the same thing happens as running the task in task scheduler.

I'm the admin of the pc and I can run non autoit programs/scripts on above ways.

I tried to reinstall the autoit setup exe file running as administrator but it didn't resolve the problem.

What did I wrong?

How can I run the script with elevated rights in task scheduler?

ps: I'm running win8 64 bits, but installed autoit in 32bits mode.

Edited October 24, 2013 by remin

[Terenz]

There is a reason why you don't compile it as .exe?

[JohnOne]

I might be wrong here, but I don't believe you can run a scheduled task with higher rights than those with which it was created.

In other words, you'd need #requireadmin.

[Terenz]

I might be wrong here, but I don't believe you can run a scheduled task with higher rights than those with which it was created.

 

There is an option in the task scheduler, "Run with the highest privilege" or something like that

[remin]

There is an option in the task scheduler, "Run with the highest privilege" or something like that

 

Yes, I clicked that option in task scheduler.

[JohnOne]

There is an option in the task scheduler, "Run with the highest privilege" or something like that

It may be that the highest available is that with which it was created.

[remin]

It may be that the highest available is that with which it was created.

 

Thank you for your reply.

Do you know how to change this?

I tried to copy the text of the script to an editor with elevated rights and saved it but that doesn't seems to work.

[JohnOne]

Add

#requireadmin

to your script.

[remin]

There is a reason why you don't compile it as .exe?

 

I often change things in the script.

I would have to compile it every time.

btw.. 

my autoit = 32 bits.

my windows env = 64 bits.

Do I have to compile to 64 bits?

[remin]

Add

#requireadmin

to your script.

 

I added this to my script

but the file still is still edited  (in SciTE4) when I run the task in task scheduler.

[JohnOne]

Can you explain exactly what you mean when you say " the file still is still edited  (in SciTE4) when I run the task in task scheduler."

[remin]

Can you explain exactly what you mean when you say " the file still is still edited  (in SciTE4) when I run the task in task scheduler."

 

Sorry,

I was a ahk user before and added my ahk script to the task scheduler in order to start the software under admin rights and without the UAC prompt:

http://www.techrepublic.com/blog/windows-and-office/run-uac-restricted-programs-without-the-uac-prompt/

That works well with ahk but not with au3 scripts.

At windows start-up it doesn't activate the script (as my old .ahk script) but it edits the file in SciTe4.

[Melba23]

remin,

You can change the default action for .au3 files from "Edit" to "Run" by using SciTEConfig. Look under the <Tools> menu (when you have a .au3 file open and select "SciTE Config" - the top option in the dialog which appears allows you to select the default action.

M23

[remin]

remin,

You can change the default action for .au3 files from "Edit" to "Run" by using SciTEConfig. Look under the <Tools> menu (when you have a .au3 file open and select "SciTE Config" - the top option in the dialog which appears allows you to select the default action.

M23

 

Hi Melba

I checked it.

The default action for .au3 files was already set to "Edit" to "Run.

Remin

ps: when I double click on an .au3 file it runs the file.

      When I run the task (open the same file with elevated rights) in task scheduler it edits the file. 

Edited October 24, 2013 by remin

[JohnOne]

You have to run AutoIt3 as admin and pass script as parameter I think.

[remin]

You have to run AutoIt3 as admin and pass script as parameter I think.

 

Yes that did it.

I added 

"C:Program Files (x86)AutoIt3AutoIt3.exe"

to the task scheduler (Start a program --> Program/Script:)

and

d:scriptname.au3

in

Add arguments (optional)

And that opened the script with highest privileges.

[Ktulu789]

Clarifying: you don't need to run the script as admin from scheduled tasks. The script asks those rights by itself if it has #RequireAdmin.

When you run it from scheduled tasks one or two things happen: the admin account has Scite editor as the default action (you said you installed as admin and set that to "run"). Second: registry settings for the Admin account are not (fully) loaded, and the script runs on default standard settings no matter what you have set up...

Again, run it with any account and the #RequireAdmin will ask you for appropriate credentials. Or make a launcher, write RunAs (admin, pw, domain, script) to avoid writing the password.

Mind you that if you don't compile it, anyone will be able to read that password.