🚀 Elevated Launcher
Launch anything. No UAC prompts.
✨ This utility lets you launch any programs with elevated privileges without triggering any UAC prompts.
Simply select your files, press the hotkeys, and they run as admin automatically.
How it works:
- The script intercepts the files you select with the keyboard or mouse.
- When you press the hotkeys, it triggers the
Elevated Launcher task, which runs Launcher.exe with admin rights. This program will execute the selected files with elevated privileges. No UAC prompts.
- Select multiple files at once by holding
ctrl.
- Default hotkeys:
Win+Alt+Left MouseclickWin+Alt+R
- You can change the hotkeys in
config.ini. Avoid keys like ctrl (already used by windows for multiple selections) and shift (also used for file selections).
You can find the hexadecimal values for the keys here: Values Table or https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/inputdev/virtual-key-codes
Elevated Launcher Resident is the tray-resident script.Elevated Launcher Container allows you to launch programs by dragging and dropping files onto it. You can find it on desktop.- You can also use
Elevated Launcher by a (non admin) command prompt:
- Type
elev (absolute path is resolved automatically).
- Or drag & drop a file into the
command prompt after typing elev
If you enjoy this utility, you can buy me a coffee. It will be appreciated.
⚠️ Warning
This utility is very simple but powerful. It bypasses the UAC prompts, so only run files you trust and avoid using on downloaded files without verifying them. Misuse can compromise your system. Use responsibly.
🎖️ Credits
This utility uses the GetIShellBrowser(), GetShellInterfaces()and GetFiles() functions from FileExplorer and Desktop au3 files of LarsJ (https://www.autoitscript.com/forum/topic/203313-automating-filewindows-explorer-and-desktop) to determine which files are selected.
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