running program with admin priviledges

[Marc Delince]

Is it possible for a normal user to run a program with
admin priviledges on Windows XP? How do I do it (I have
admin priviledges)?
Thanks

 

[Steven L Umbach]

Yes it is possible, but how easy to configure is another question. You may want to
contact the publisher or visit their website to see if they have any information on
needed changes to ntfs and/or registry permissions for users group to run the
application. Possibly a search of Google will also bring some helpful information.
There are two free tools from Sysinternals -regmon and filemon that can help you
determine where permissions are inadequate. You would need to log on as regular user
and then run these tools [one at a time] via runas to provide administrator
credentials just before you try to execute the application and then note in the log
where permissions are being denied. This can be an extremely tedious process however,
but maybe you will luck out. --- Steve

http://www.sysinternals.com/

 

[Roger Abell]

I believe that Steve has answered you for the better
option of "How do I get an application that runs under an
admin account set so it will run under a limited account"
To have a normal limited account run an app as an admin
you need to use RunAs. This means that the person that
runs the app will know the username/password of an
admin account, and so nothing will prevent them from
just logging in with those credentials. (Yes, those RunAs
credentials can be obscured, but the determined person
will still find out what they are.)