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Friends,
I want to launch command prompt window from my application running on Windows Vista. For this purpose i am using CreateProcess. What i want is that command prompt window shoul be launched with Administrative priviliges. Please tell me how can i do so ?

Imtiaz

I'm not sure about CreateProcess().

But maybe this:

::ShellExecute(NULL, _T("runas"), _T("c:\\Windows\\System32\\cmd.exe"), _T(""), _T(""), SW_SHOWNORMAL);

Mark

Mark Salsbery
Microsoft MVP - Visual C++
Java | [Coffee]

Not counting the run as administrator part, I'd do it like this:

// Win32.cpp : Defines the entry point for the application.
//

#include "stdafx.h"
#include <windows.h>
#include <tchar.h>
#include <shellapi.h>
#include <malloc.h>
#pragma comment(lib, "shell32.lib")
 
int APIENTRY WinMain(HINSTANCE hInstance,
                     HINSTANCE hPrevInstance,
                     LPSTR     lpCmdLine,
                     int       nCmdShow)
{
	DWORD size = GetEnvironmentVariable(_T("ComSpec"), NULL, 0);
	LPTSTR pPath = static_cast<LPTSTR>(_alloca(size*sizeof(TCHAR)));
	GetEnvironmentVariable(_T("ComSpec"), pPath, size);
 
	ShellExecute(NULL, NULL, pPath, NULL, NULL, SW_SHOWNORMAL);

	return 0;
}

This code makes no assumptions about the location of the windows folder or the location and name of the command interpreter.

Steve

modified on Wednesday, March 5, 2008 10:08 PM

Sweet! Thanks for that!!

Just add the runas verb and it will prompt for elevation...

ShellExecute(NULL, _T("runas"), pPath, NULL, NULL, SW_SHOWNORMAL);

Filed for future reference, thanks!
Mark

Mark Salsbery
Microsoft MVP - Visual C++
Java | [Coffee]

In addition to Mark's reply, see here[^].

Steve

Imtiaz Murtaza wrote:
For this purpose i am using CreateProcess. What i want is that command prompt window shoul be launched with Administrative priviliges

have a look at CreateProcessWithLogon, CreateProcessWithToken, CreateProcessAsUser.