Run as Administrator

[shs-ict]

Hi

 

I have a program that I need students to run on our curriculum PCs that requires Administrator permissions. Obviously these machines are fairly well locked down. I have seen articles on the Net about setting up a task in Task Scheduler but that did not seems to work. Has anyone any suggestions/ideas?

 

Thanks

[Manny-Tech]

What is the software you want them to run? There may be alternative workarounds if someone else has come across it.

 

I certainly wouldn't recommended letting any students run anything as an administrator.

[shs-ict]

Yes I agree that's why I just want this one program - GenyMotion an Android emulator - to run as an administrator.

[Manny-Tech]

I'd gather it's like any other android emulator (we use App Inventor) and tried to redirect everything to the local path? We had to do a few edits on configuration files to point to the users home area not sure if it's a similar thing with Genymotion?

[koryo]

Microsoft ACT (Application Compatability Toolkit) has the ability to create a custom shim that can fool a large percentage of applications into thinking they are running as administrator when they are not. It might even have the solution pre-built for you. You will need to download and install it to find out.

 

As I don't know what OS your running I can't provide you with a direct download link. However have a look at this :

 

https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/dd562082%28v=vs.85%29.aspx

[Zezima]

Letting students run anything as an administrator isn't the best idea... Why do you want this emulator?

 

We intend to use App Inventor next year, but hopefully we are goign to get 5-10 android tablets for them to test their apps on. we think that by using shared devices in the lesson it should help to make it a more "social" and enjoyable lesson with lots of collaboration..

[MatthewL]

When we had applications that required to be run as administrator we just gave users admin permissions to the program directory it ran from and and often fixed it.