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How can I make runas.exe (Windows) wait until the program it starts exits?

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That is, I want runas to exit only after the program that it runs exits. There is no argument to runas.exe. I've tried lots of permutations of with it and nothing works. I have to use because I need elevated privileges for the program, so I need to start it like this: where is my program. is being …

Error Output

runas /user:administrator /savedcred /env update.exe

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Fix for: How can I make runas.exe (Windows) wait until the program it starts exits?

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RunAs does not elevate a process, but merely runs the process with target user credentials. But this does not run the process with an elevated token. What you are trying to do with Runas is impossible. To do this, you need to use either PowerShell, …

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