
Then of course the administrator account is not logged on when another user tries to run it so "run only when user is logged on" won't work either. My understanding from other research is you get no gui popped up if you run "whether the user is logged on or not". Now here’s where the real magic happens… we need to add a command that will run the scheduled task, passing in the name of the task that we used. Right-click anywhere on the desktop and choose New \ Shortcut from the menu.

You can right-click on it and choose “Run” at this point, simply to make sure that it launches the application the way you were expecting.Īt this point our scheduled tasks setup is done, so you can close out, just remember the name of task. Now switch to the Actions tab, click the New button, and then browse down to the application that you are trying to start.Ĭlose out of the dialog by clicking the OK button, which should create the new task in the list. Then check the box for “Run with highest privileges” The first thing you need to do is give the task a short, simple name, preferably without any spaces in it.

Open up Task Scheduler through the start menu search box (usually you can just type task), and then on the right-hand side click the “Create Task” link. This works by setting up a scheduled task to run the application in Administrator mode, and then setting up a separate shortcut that tells the scheduled task to run. I have tried using the following to run a program that requires admin rights on a standard users domain login.Ģ) More secure as it will allow run only specific application with admin privileges:
