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Running as an admin, is it possible to create a non-administrative scheduled task?

I'm working on a project responsible for establishing three callbacks for the execution of commands. These are supposed to represent three different scenarios: Regular Command Prompt, Administrative ...
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Run a spefic program as administrator from an unprivileged user account without asking for password [duplicate]

My son does not have admin access on his computer but wants to run a game that asks for admin privileges. I am looking for a way to run just this one program as administrator without prompting for ...
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Changing focus to app started with Task Scheduler

I use the method of Task Scheduler to start apps with admin privileges via shortcut to bypass the UAC. How ever, I cannot seem to make it switch focus to the started app. It used to be that case in ...
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running my game with admin privs on windows 10 -- task scheduler problems

I have an old game my wife and I like to play; I've installed it on a brand-new windows 10 machine and it runs fine from the command line and from double-clicking the executable in File Explorer. ...
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Can an unprivileged user be given read-only rights to a SYSTEM task?

I have a scheduled task that must run as the SYSTEM account, but I would like to allow unprivileged users the ability to see it. Specifically, I am interested in users being able to see/get the ...
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Setting a shortcut to trigger task scheduler

I wanted to disable the UAC popup box when running the command prompt as admin, but this didn't work for me. What did work, was setting the task scheduler to run it as admin given a specific trigger. ...
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