Problem creating an Elevated Shortcut.

[Lakes]

I`ve done this successfully for SpeedFan, but I`m having a problem with doing the same for the Search Everything program.

I`ve been through this tutorial several times now, the task executes successfully,( I checked it with command prompt box) but nothing happens.

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/c start "SpeedFan" "C:\Program Files (x86)\SpeedFan\SpeedFan.exe"
   
/c start "Everything" "C:\Program Files (x86)\Everything\Everything.exe"

I`ve also tried adding -startup with the same result.

Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks.

[therube]

I just gave it a shot, & it worked as advertised.

(NOW, I can't believe, even though I've long said, "it's no big deal", that I've put up with UAC prompts for all this time now! Once you run "Everything" without having the UAC prompt prompt, you'll never want to go back. Unforeakin believable MS! How many times UAC has been a benefit to me, to the world, to the universe. I must truly say, THANK YOU MS! Progress, yes that's what we get. A foreakin UAC prompt. If I had Win8 I'd probably be complaining about the Start Menu .)

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%windir%\System32\cmd.exe
/c start "EVERYTHING" "C:\DEV\Locate\Everything.exe"
C:\DEV\Locate\

(I set the "Start in" directory, but that should not be necessary. Your paths will differ from mine.)

And you did all this while running as an Administrator?

Now you did create a scheduled tasks shortcut on your desktop too?

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E:\Windows\System32\schtasks.exe /run /tn "EVERYTHING"

(I called it "Everything UAC".)

[Lakes]

The tutorial worked for Speedfan no problem, I`m doing exactly the same for Everything.

Administrator account, task shortcut (at first anyway), if it don`t work in the command prompt box then the shortcut will do nothing as well.

If I`m missing something, I can`t see it. (You typed Everything in caps, so I`ll try that).
I`ll go through it again tomorrow and post some screenshots of the procedure for a fresh pair of eyes to look at.

[Lakes]

So, I created a new admin account (deleted the old task) and went through all the steps and it worked!

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BTW, I`m still logged into my main Admin account, while using the new one.
But, switching back on my main Admin account, I get this

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All the accounts are set to Administrator, so I don`t know why this is happening.

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Does this not work across all (Admin) accounts?

[Lakes]

Well, there was some sort of permissions problem with that account, so i`m using the new one.

Consider this as Solved.