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Run MSI files as administrator from a user account

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Mar 15, 202678320 views
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I'm usually logged in as a normal user on my Windows XP box. Sometimes, when I want to install a software update, I don't want to log off and log on again as admin, but I right-click the installer exe and choose "Run as..." to run it from my admin account. However, this option only seems to exist f…

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Fix for: Run MSI files as administrator from a user account

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.msi files can be executed with msiexec.exe, so in combination with the runas command, you could accomplish what your want: As a full-path to the file is recommended, it might need quotes around it and you need to escape them then with a backslash :

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