Launching a shortcut "as admin" Topic is solved

[JBensimon]

Is there a more direct way to launch a shortcut elevated than

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Run, *RunAs cmd.exe /c "path\shortcut.lnk",, Hide

i.e. without the help of CMD and without extracting & launching the target of the shortcut? I can't think of any.

JB

[RussF]

I'm not 100% sure what you're asking, but this works for me:

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Run, *RunAs path\shortcut.lnk

If you don't want to use a shortcut, just use the path to the executable file, i.e.

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Run, *RunAs C:\Windows\System32\notepad.exe

; or if the app folder is in your Path environment variable

Run, *RunAs Notepad.exe

Russ

[JBensimon]

Wow, just realized that your first suggestion wasn't working for me because, by a quirk of how I was assembling the Run parameter, there were two spaces between *RunAs and path\shortcut.lnk, which yields a "file not found" error and was the reason I posted the question in the first place.

Thanks for forcing me to look again!

JB