Running an app that requires an administrator account from a service
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Is it possible to run handle.exe (from sysinternals) from a service (in windows7) without having to turn off UAC?
The service is a custom c-app that needs to find out which process is locking a file it tries to access and handle.exe seems to be a good way to solve it but i can't get it to work with UAC turned on. This app runs all the time so i can't have a UAC prompt while its running but its fine if it shows up at startup.
Handle.exe works fine from an admin commandprompt but fails when trying to run from a normal prompt.
I call handle.exe from CreateProcess() and get the output from pipes. I guess there should be a way to solve this but i can't figure it out. Setting up the service to log in from an admin account does not seem to work.
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