Comments on: Create Elevated Shortcut to run Program bypassing UAC Prompt in Windows 11

By: Josh Mazess

Josh Mazess — Fri, 15 Jun 2018 22:28:00 +0000

In reply to Doghouse. Try granting Everyone (or the particular user) Full Control to the task file in C:WindowsSystem32Tasks(task_file_name).

By: Josh Mazess

Josh Mazess — Fri, 15 Jun 2018 22:20:00 +0000

Note that by default, only the Creator and Administrators can access and start the Scheduled Task by default.
I’m not sure if it’s safe to share this, but if your Scheduled Task is configured to run as Local System (or some other privileged account) and you want a non-Administrator to be able to initiate it from the above-described Program Shortcut, you can make this possible by granting Everyone Full Control to the task file located at C:WindowsSystem32Tasks(task_file_name).
I used this method to provide a desktop shortcut to end users to enable them to initiate a Windows 10 Upgrade (pre-cached on the machine) without Administrator privilege. It’s a nifty trick. However, users will not be able to see or interact with the running task because it’ll be running in the System session.

By: Josh Mazess

Josh Mazess — Fri, 15 Jun 2018 22:10:00 +0000

In reply to Mark Caplan. Why would you create your task under the WPD folder? Most people create their custom tasks at the root. I'm sure that was assumed in the article.

By: Josh Mazess

Josh Mazess — Fri, 15 Jun 2018 22:07:00 +0000

In reply to Rudy Bleeker. See my comment above about installing compatibility shims.

By: Josh Mazess

Josh Mazess — Fri, 15 Jun 2018 22:06:00 +0000

In reply to ezfreeze.

Install a shim with the signature of the app and the compatibility settings you want to grant it, such as running as Administrator. I think that will do what you want.
It’s purposely difficult because it’s not supposed to be easy to bypass security or else malware writers and hackers would take advantage of it.