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RamonUnch / AltSnap

Maintained continuation of Stefan Sundin's AltDrag
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Auto start on boot with elevated privileges, how to eliminate the UAC prompt ? #461

Closed batchfileframework closed 11 months ago

batchfileframework commented 1 year ago

Hi,

I would like alt-snap to be able to interact with elevated windows.

So I set it to auto start with elevated privileges.

As alt-snap indicates, this does create a UAC prompt on every boot. Alt-snap even suggests starting it from a task scheduler as a suggestion.

Do we have a clear method for starting alt-snap with elevated privileges at boot without an extra UAC prompt on every reboot ?

batchfileframework commented 1 year ago

I have not tried this but there is a command to create a scheduled task, to run at boot, with elevated privileges

schtasks /create /f /tn "RunAltSnap" /tr "C:\Path\To\AltSnap.exe" /sc onlogon /rl highest

Here is the meaning of those arguments as per schtasks /create /?

/F                 Forcefully creates the task and suppresses warnings if
                   the specified task already exists.

/TN   taskname     Specifies the string in the form of path\name
                   which uniquely identifies this scheduled task.

/TR   taskrun      Specifies the path and file name of the program to be
                   run at the scheduled time.
                   Example: C:\windows\system32\calc.exe

/SC   schedule     Specifies the schedule frequency.
                   Valid schedule types: MINUTE, HOURLY, DAILY, WEEKLY,
                   MONTHLY, ONCE, ONSTART, ONLOGON, ONIDLE, ONEVENT.

/RL   level        Sets the Run Level for the job. Valid values are
                   LIMITED and HIGHEST. The default is LIMITED.
batchfileframework commented 1 year ago

It is possible to check if the task exists with

schtasks /query /tn "RunAltSnap" /fo LIST

/TN   taskname       Specifies the task path\name for which
                     to retrieve the information, else all of them.
/FO   format         Specifies the format for the output.
                     Valid values: TABLE, LIST, CSV.

And it is possible to delete the task with

schtasks /delete /tn "RunAltSnap" /f

RamonUnch commented 1 year ago

There is also an AltSnap.xml file in the installation directory to help users to setup the Scheduled task. Because Scheduled tasks are invisible in the task manager's startup list, I do not put AltSnap there by default, Also many users will not use it elevated anyway.

I will Add the command line options in the wiki, and to the readme file, this will be helpful to some users indeed.

RamonUnch commented 11 months ago

Referenced in the README FIRST issue, so I close it.