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Last edited by bromberg; 06 Aug 2019 at 00:58.
running DOS as ADMIN
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Dan,
My pleasure.
Unfortunately, FL is too far for me to walk today. And I can't find my Wellingtons.
Denis
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I'm coming late to this but, you can run RegIdleBackup on demand, I do it all the time. And when I create a scheduled task, under the general tab I will either run the scheduled task under the Administrators account, or my own personal Administrator level account in addition to using run as administrator. My personal Administrator account is obviously a member of the Administrators account. HTH
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Dan,
To check the status of a user account, you can open a command window and enter
net user
followed by your user name e.g.
net user RonBin
then look on the Local Group Memberships line.
You should see *Administrators and that indicates that your account has Admin status.
Do note that even Admin accounts are treated as Standard accounts when they log in. You give yourself permission to operate at an Admin level for specific tasks using the Admin prompt.
Everybody normally refers to this as the Admin prompt.
- It is properly called an ElevationUI, ConsentUI or Secure desktop mode dialog [that last term only applies if it dims the rest of the screen when it appears].
- A Standard user would get a version that included an input box to enter an Admin account's password and this type of dialog is properly called an ElevationUI, CredentialUI or Secure desktop mode dialog [that last term only applies if it dims the rest of the screen when it appears].
If you are routinely using an Admin account for day-to-day computing then go to Control panel, User accounts, Change UAC settings and put the slider to its top position.
- Malware can attempt to penetrate an Admin account to achieve Admin elevation without that Admin prompt appearing [and thus gaining access to the whole computer without your knowing].
- It seems, at the moment, that having UAC set to its maximum prevents that.
- There have been demonstrations of malware penetrating successfully with UAC set to its default level [one level down from the maximum].
- The proper solution is to use a Standard account for day-to-day computing but not all of us do so. I don't.
While we're on the subject -
- User accounts can get corrupted
- If your only Admin account gets corrupted then sorting things out is difficult.
- A spare Admin account can change a crisis into a mere annoyance.
- Go to Settings, Accounts, Family & other users and
- - Add someone else to this PC then make a new local account - and make sure you give it a decently strong password that you immediately write down somewhere handy yet secure.
- - When you have done that, select the new account then click on Change account type and make it an Admin account.
Denis
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Hi Denis,Dan,
To check the status of a user account, you can open a command window and enter
net user
followed by your user name e.g.
net user RonBin
then look on the Local Group Memberships line.
You should see *Administrators and that indicates that your account has Admin status.
Do note that even Admin accounts are treated as Standard accounts when they log in. You give yourself permission to operate at an Admin level for specific tasks using the Admin prompt.
Everybody normally refers to this as the Admin prompt.
- It is properly called an ElevationUI, ConsentUI or Secure desktop mode dialog [that last term only applies if it dims the rest of the screen when it appears].
- A Standard user would get a version that included an input box to enter an Admin account's password and this type of dialog is properly called an ElevationUI, CredentialUI or Secure desktop mode dialog [that last term only applies if it dims the rest of the screen when it appears].
If you are routinely using an Admin account for day-to-day computing then go to Control panel, User accounts, Change UAC settings and put the slider to its top position.
- Malware can attempt to penetrate an Admin account to achieve Admin elevation without that Admin prompt appearing [and thus gaining access to the whole computer without your knowing].
- It seems, at the moment, that having UAC set to its maximum prevents that.
- There have been demonstrations of malware penetrating successfully with UAC set to its default level [one level down from the maximum].
- The proper solution is to use a Standard account for day-to-day computing but not all of us do so. I don't.
While we're on the subject -
- User accounts can get corrupted
- If your only Admin account gets corrupted then sorting things out is difficult.
- A spare Admin account can change a crisis into a mere annoyance.
- Go to Settings, Accounts, Family & other users and
- - Add someone else to this PC then make a new local account - and make sure you give it a decently strong password that you immediately write down somewhere handy yet secure.
- - When you have done that, select the new account then click on Change account type and make it an Admin account.
Denis
Thanks for the 'net user' tip (and other info in your last post). Mine shows up as:
So if I am an Administrator do you have any thoughts on why my scheduling of the RegIdleBackup task that I request to be issued during shutdown through the Windows Task Scheduler does not work?Code:Local Group Memberships *Administrators *Ssh Users Global Group memberships *None
You may recall from your prior assistance that we did get it to work through a DOS batch command but now I'd like for the Task Scheduler to do it for me.
Thanks!
Dan
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Dan,
I have seen some threads about RegIdleBackup recently, I don't think that Enable Automatic Backs up of System Registry [in which I can see you posted], was the only one. But I have not followed the subject and have no opinion about the task.
- For any individual Registry key, I rely on exporting it before I start work.
- For the overall Registry, I rely on my frequent system images.
Try getting a shortcut to a simple batch file [just containing a pause command] to run from Task scheduler.
Then add >D:\Desktop\Results.txt to the shortcut and try again [use your own path & filename].
Then add running as Admin to the shortcut and try again.
Then changing the shortcut to point to your proper batch file and try again.
Do note that the account settings in Task scheduler can have unexpected effects. If you tell it to run whether user is logged in or not then it will simply refuse to do anything if the task uses a UI.
Denis
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