Guest jameshanley39@yahoo.co.uk Posted July 11, 2007 Posted July 11, 2007 how do you do runas on a reg file? or runas on regedit.exe on a reg file. by that I mean. Suppose i'm in a non-admin account. If I want to run an exe, I can right click and do runas, and enter the username and password of an or the administrative account. But I can't do that with a reg file. I can't right click a reg file.. and this doesn't work either C:\WINDOWS>runas /user:Administrator regedit.exe c:\a.reg this works in the sense that it opens up regedit and tries to run the reg file. But can't write to place required 'cos not administrator C:\WINDOWS>regedit.exe c:\a.reg this opens regedit, but I want to run a reg file, i don't want to enter the info from the reg file manually C:\WINDOWS>runas /user:Administrator regedit.exe
Guest Pegasus \(MVP\) Posted July 11, 2007 Posted July 11, 2007 Re: how do you do runas on a reg file? <jameshanley39@yahoo.co.uk> wrote in message news:1184114732.330052.114300@n2g2000hse.googlegroups.com... > how do you do runas on a reg file? > or runas on regedit.exe on a reg file. > > by that I mean. Suppose i'm in a non-admin account. If I want to run > an exe, I can right click and do runas, and enter the username and > password of an or the administrative account. But I can't do that > with a reg file. > > I can't right click a reg file.. > > and this doesn't work either > C:\WINDOWS>runas /user:Administrator regedit.exe c:\a.reg > > this works in the sense that it opens up regedit and tries to run the > reg file. But can't write to place required 'cos not administrator > C:\WINDOWS>regedit.exe c:\a.reg > > this opens regedit, but I want to run a reg file, i don't want to > enter the info from the reg file manually > C:\WINDOWS>runas /user:Administrator regedit.exe > You could try some of the "runas" replacements: http://www.joeware.net/win/free/tools/cpau.htm http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=3E272913.27CBE26D%40hydro.com http://www.hiddensoft.com/autoit3/ http://www.robotronic.de/runasspcEn.html (takes the password from an encrypted file)
Guest Olaf Engelke [MVP Windows Server] Posted July 11, 2007 Posted July 11, 2007 Re: how do you do runas on a reg file? Hello, <jameshanley39@yahoo.co.uk> wrote in message news:1184114732.330052.114300@n2g2000hse.googlegroups.com... > how do you do runas on a reg file? > or runas on regedit.exe on a reg file. > > by that I mean. Suppose i'm in a non-admin account. If I want to run > an exe, I can right click and do runas, and enter the username and > password of an or the administrative account. But I can't do that > with a reg file. > > I can't right click a reg file.. > > and this doesn't work either > C:\WINDOWS>runas /user:Administrator regedit.exe c:\a.reg > does work for me: runas /user:administrator "regedit /s c:\test.reg" asks for password and enters the regfile without further comment. Tested on Windows XP Pro SP2 platform. Maybe the missing quotation marks are your problem. Best greetings from Germany Olaf
Guest Rich Raffenetti Posted July 11, 2007 Posted July 11, 2007 Re: how do you do runas on a reg file? regedit has a menu option for import... that reads a reg file. Would this be different from "entering info from the reg file manually" for you? <jameshanley39@yahoo.co.uk> wrote in message news:1184114732.330052.114300@n2g2000hse.googlegroups.com... > how do you do runas on a reg file? > or runas on regedit.exe on a reg file. > > by that I mean. Suppose i'm in a non-admin account. If I want to run > an exe, I can right click and do runas, and enter the username and > password of an or the administrative account. But I can't do that > with a reg file. > > I can't right click a reg file.. > > and this doesn't work either > C:\WINDOWS>runas /user:Administrator regedit.exe c:\a.reg > > this works in the sense that it opens up regedit and tries to run the > reg file. But can't write to place required 'cos not administrator > C:\WINDOWS>regedit.exe c:\a.reg > > this opens regedit, but I want to run a reg file, i don't want to > enter the info from the reg file manually > C:\WINDOWS>runas /user:Administrator regedit.exe >
Guest jameshanley39@yahoo.co.uk Posted July 11, 2007 Posted July 11, 2007 Re: how do you do runas on a reg file? On Jul 11, 11:21 am, "Olaf Engelke [MVP Windows Server]" <oenew...@mvps.org> wrote: > Hello,<jameshanle...@yahoo.co.uk> wrote in message > > news:1184114732.330052.114300@n2g2000hse.googlegroups.com...> how do you do runas on a reg file? > > or runas on regedit.exe on a reg file. > > > by that I mean. Suppose i'm in a non-admin account. If I want to run > > an exe, I can right click and do runas, and enter the username and > > password of an or the administrative account. But I can't do that > > with a reg file. > > > I can't right click a reg file.. > > > and this doesn't work either > > C:\WINDOWS>runas /user:Administrator regedit.exe c:\a.reg > > does work for me: > runas /user:administrator "regedit /s c:\test.reg" > asks for password and enters the regfile without further comment. > Tested on Windows XP Pro SP2 platform. > Maybe the missing quotation marks are your problem. > Best greetings from Germany > Olaf thanks for the /s tip, but at the moment i want any error messages or confirmations, to be displayed. I don't want them to be suppressed! you were right.. It needed quotes. But then what if the directory has spaces? This runs regedit, but it doesn't read the directory properly, and passes it a succession of wrong paths each bringing up an error box, and then it gives up. C:\WINDOWS>runas /user:Administrator "regedit.exe c:\Documents and Settings\James\desktop\a.reg" Enter the password for Administrator: Attempting to start regedit.exe c:\Documents and Settings\James\desktop \a.reg as user "BLAH234\Administrator" ... note: using tab in cmd.exe for filename completion sped that up a bit!
Guest Olaf Engelke [MVP Windows Server] Posted July 11, 2007 Posted July 11, 2007 Re: how do you do runas on a reg file? Hello, <jameshanley39@yahoo.co.uk> schrieb im Newsbeitrag news:1184165297.626415.311420@m3g2000hsh.googlegroups.com... > On Jul 11, 11:21 am, "Olaf Engelke [MVP Windows Server]" >> does work for me: >> runas /user:administrator "regedit /s c:\test.reg" >> asks for password and enters the regfile without further comment. >> Tested on Windows XP Pro SP2 platform. >> Maybe the missing quotation marks are your problem. > > thanks for the /s tip, but at the moment i want any error messages or > confirmations, to be displayed. I don't want them to be suppressed! > > you were right.. It needed quotes. But then what if the directory has > spaces? > > This runs regedit, but it doesn't read the directory properly, and > passes it a succession of wrong paths each bringing up an error box, > and then it gives up. > C:\WINDOWS>runas /user:Administrator "regedit.exe c:\Documents and > Settings\James\desktop\a.reg" well, try runas /user:Administrator "regedit.exe \"c:\Documents and Settings\James\desktop\a.reg\"" Best greetings from Germany Olaf
Guest shahid Posted August 15, 2007 Posted August 15, 2007 how to add reg file ! how to add reg file ! Use this C:\WINDOWS>runas /user:Administrator c:\a.reg it will ask you the password for administrator hope that you have it in some place. enjoy! wahaj87@yahoo.com EggHeadCafe.com - .NET Developer Portal of Choice http://www.eggheadcafe.com
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