Elevate through ShellExecute
, from Vista Compatibility Team Blog.
We often get the question how to elevate a process through ShellExecute. From the docs it is not immediately clear. The trick is passing in “runas” in the lpVerb.
Here is a snippet to run notepad elevated.
#include “stdafx.h”
#include “windows.h”
#include “shellapi.h”
int _tmain(int argc, _TCHAR* argv[])
{
SHELLEXECUTEINFO shExecInfo;
shExecInfo.cbSize = sizeof(SHELLEXECUTEINFO);
shExecInfo.fMask = NULL;
shExecInfo.hwnd = NULL;
shExecInfo.lpVerb = L”runas“;
shExecInfo.lpFile = L”notepad.exe”;
shExecInfo.lpParameters = NULL;
shExecInfo.lpDirectory = NULL;
shExecInfo.nShow = SW_MAXIMIZE;
shExecInfo.hInstApp = NULL;
ShellExecuteEx(&shExecInfo);
return 0;
}
Here is some screenshot:
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