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I am trying to play some online games on the school computers.
Although everytime i try to run exes of setups such as Hearthstone-Setup-enUS.exe i get the User Account Control blocking me from installing applications.
I undersrand that installing pirated software on the school computers is ilegal but I just want to play free online games.
Is there a way to bypass the UAC?
School's Computer run Windows 7
blak3r / Rushyo's solution works fine for everything except Windows 8. Running AT on Windows 8 results in:
The AT command has been deprecated. Please use schtasks.exe instead.
The request is not supported.
(see screenshot #1) and will return %errorLevel% 1.
So, I went searching for other commands that require elevated permissions. rationallyparanoid.com had a list of a few, so I ran each command on the two opposite extremes of current Windows OSs (XP and 8) in the hopes of finding a command that would be denied access on both OSs when run with standard permissions.
Eventually, I did find one - NET SESSION. A true, clean, universal solution that doesn't involve:
FOR loopsAT (Windows 8 incompatible) or WHOAMI (Windows XP incompatible). Each of which have their own security, usability, and portability issues.
I've independently confirmed that this works on:
(see screenshot #2)
So, to use this solution, simply do something like this:
@echo off
goto check_Permissions
:check_Permissions
echo Administrative permissions required. Detecting permissions...
net session >nul 2>&1
if %errorLevel% == 0 (
echo Success: Administrative permissions confirmed.
) else (
echo Failure: Current permissions inadequate.
)
pause >nul
Available here, if you're lazy: https://dl.dropbox.com/u/27573003/Distribution/Binaries/check_Permissions.bat
NET SESSION is a standard command used to "manage server computer connections. Used without parameters, [it] displays information about all sessions with the local computer."
So, here's the basic process of my given implementation:
@echo off
goto check_Permissions
:check_Permissions code blocknet session >nul 2>&1
STDOUT) stream to nul STDERR) to the same destination as numeric handle 1if %errorLevel% == 0
%errorLevel%) is 0 then this means that no errors have occurred and, therefore, the immediate previous command ran successfullyelse
%errorLevel%) is not 0 then this means that errors have occurred and, therefore, the immediate previous command ran unsuccessfully
![[imgur]](https://i.imgur.com/01irE.png)
NET SESSION on Windows XP x86 - Windows 8 x64:
![[imgur]](https://i.stack.imgur.com/cAAIj.png)
Thank you, @Tilka, for changing your accepted answer to mine. :)
The recommended solution is to add a manifest to your application which requests elevation: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb756929.aspx
Best Solution
In my experience, no. Whenever a UAC prompt is there you can't run it without administrator rights. You can however try installing it into a flash drive (at home) and if you are lucky enough the game itself might run off of that. UAC blocks most installers, but it doesn't touch quite a lot of actual applications.
HOWEVER, schools tend to have common online game ports blocked, and there's a good chance that even if your game launches it wont connect.