how to write to registry without admin rights on win vista/7

Thorsten Kampe thorsten at thorstenkampe.de
Sat Jun 25 02:03:28 EDT 2011


* Andrew Berg (Fri, 24 Jun 2011 14:02:54 -0500)
> On 2011.06.24 03:48 AM, Duncan Booth wrote:
> > http://stackoverflow.com/questions/130763/request-uac-elevation-from-within-a-python-script
> Heh. On Windows 7, using 'runas' for the operation in os.startfile()
> gives me a normal UAC prompt.

That is because UAC for non-admin accounts /is/ runas.

Thorsten



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