Questions

Tony Jiménez

Good, I have two questions for you,
1- How can I run a script as an administrator from trigger cmd? What happens is that when I run it as an administrator myself I do not give me errors and when I do it with trigger cmd an application does not close because an access error deneged

2- Therefore, I would like to know how I can run a script with trigger cmd but that looks on the screen the CMD window to see what is the error in the following script's developing, since I currently realize that I do not know that I do not know It develops one or two steps of it, I am new to all this and it helps me a lot to read the error codes to look for them on Google.

By the way, use Windows.

Thank you.

Russ

@Tony-Jiménez, here's one way to run elevated commands to run "As administrator" via TRIGGERcmd:

Open Task Scheduler and create a task called "AdminScript" like this:

This is what the Action settings look like:

On the General Tab, click this "Run with highest privileges" checkbox. That basically tells it to run "As administrator", aka elevated.

Make your TRIGGERcmd command run this:

SCHTASKS.EXE /RUN /TN "AdminScript"

This is my test script:

@echo off
net session > NUL 2>&1
IF ERRORLEVEL 1 GOTO not_elevated
echo This script ran WITH elevated privilages.
goto end
:not_elevated
echo This script ran WITHOUT elevated privilages.
:end
start notepad

These are the contents of d:\tools\script.log:

This script ran WITH elevated privilages.

I see that notepad ran "As administrator" because it has Elevated = Yes in Task Manager. I had to add the Elevated column to see that.

Xander

@Russ I'm trying to get this to work on an old (out of date) Win10 micro-PC that's x86.

{"trigger":"Users","command":"schtasks.exe /run /tn users","ground":"background","voice":"users"},

Here's the command in the JSON file. If I run the schtasks from a command prompt, it works. If I try to trigger this, it doesn't. Am I missing some syntax?

(The goal is to run a batch file at c:\ which deletes a file in Program Files and replaces it with a backup.)

EDIT: Just needed to change it to Foreground ‍️