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I have a powershell script that needs to be run as admin to set IP addresses. Then I need to run an application as non-admin. As I understand it, this corresponds to the term "elevated rights".

If I simply double click the .exe from the file explorer (not "run as admin"), the app runs as intended without elevated rights.

I have found several tips online on how to accomplish this, however I haven't succeeded with the following commands in my script:

(from How to run exe with/without elevated privileges from PowerShell)

runas /trustlevel:0x20000 "\..\myApp.exe":

this results in an "Internal error" because access is denied to a certain ".lock" file related to an eclipse workspace.

Second approach:

Start-Process -filepath "\..\myApp.exe" -ArgumentsList "-ExecutionPolicy bypass -Scope CurrentUser"

this runs the application but it's run in elevated state.

EDIT: Third approach:

I tried making a second script from where I run

Start-Process -FilePath "\..\myApp.exe"

which I call from my main script using:

Start-Process PowerShell -ArgumentList '-File ""\..\mySecondScript.ps1""' -Verb open

This results in myApp running with elevated rights when its called from within the main script, but without elevated rights when run on powershell on its own.

Anton Fahlgren
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    Possible duplicate of [How to run exe with/without elevated privileges from PowerShell][1] [1]:https://stackoverflow.com/questions/29266622/how-to-run-exe-with-without-elevated-privileges-from-powershell – L8R Apr 01 '22 at 12:51
  • I saw this thread but unfortunately didn't find it helpful. The first approach above is from this link, and the "explorer.exe bug" method I couldn't understand how to apply to my application. – Anton Fahlgren Apr 01 '22 at 13:58

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