Running xmodules as administrator

codingecho · July 1, 2020, 1:54pm

Hi, is it possible to define that xmodules should be run as administrator so that its possible to control applications running as administrator? I would like to control a application whit xclick.

admin · July 1, 2020, 2:00pm

Windows, Mac or Linux?

codingecho · July 1, 2020, 4:24pm

I’m using Windows 10.

admin · July 1, 2020, 6:13pm

The UIVision RPA core “lives” in the web browser. So if you launch the browser with “Run as Administrator”, then UIVision runs in admin mode as well => it can interact with elevated admin windows. See here:

codingecho · July 2, 2020, 8:35am

I tried running chrome as administrator but it does not work.

admin · July 2, 2020, 11:35am

Question: After starting the macro, did you manually give the command window the focus? For this tiny test macro this is required (normally XClick would be used for that).

Here is another screencast with more details:

codingecho · July 2, 2020, 12:20pm

That’s correct. I made the command promt window focus after running the macro. I also runned chrome as administrator.

ulrich · July 2, 2020, 2:20pm

Just an idea to check: Did you close all instances of Chrome before starting the admin instance?

codingecho · July 3, 2020, 6:05am

Yes I did close all chrome instances before I runed as administrator.

admin · July 3, 2020, 9:53am

Strange, all works fine in our test. If you want, I can give you remote access to our test machine. Maybe you can recreate the issue there?

codingecho · July 3, 2020, 10:51am

I’m not sure if I can recrate it on your test machine. I tried on another of my machines but there I don’t have this issue.

codingecho · July 3, 2020, 11:08am

Seems like I have the same problem when I run firefox as administrator.

codingecho · July 3, 2020, 11:18am

Looks like chrome was running in the background even when all the windows was closed. So when I clicked run as administrator it just used the old instance of chrome that was running as regular user account. When I closed all the chrome instances from task manager and runned chrome as administrator it worked Thank you for your help solving this.

TechSupport · March 30, 2021, 1:28pm

Some additional info: The above solution does not work for the UAC prompt. The “User Account Control” (UAC) prompt is designed to avoid automation. How to bypass the UAC prompt is a challenge for all automation tools.

Workarounds:

Connect to the machine via remote control (e. g. Teamviewer or Anydesk). Then you can automate the machine under test remotely/visually with UI Vision. This includes pressing the UAC buttons.

Other workarounds:

Disable the local security policy “Run all administrators in Admin Approval Mode”
Turn UAC off in registry. This is not recommended, and is not feasible on Windows 8 or later.