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Command prompt with system process security settings

Often times software distributions and services run as a 'system process' in Windows (i.e. SMS, Tivoli, etc.). This can create security problems with some installations/functions where the system account doesn't have the same permissions as the admin account. To test this, sometimes you really wish you could run a job interactively with system process permissions... here's a trick on how:

at 1500 cmd.exe /i

Yes, use the 'at' command to run a cmd.exe... it will execute with the system process permissions. Just pick a time 1 minute in the future and there you go.

Windows File and Registry Monitoring Tools

To find what an application is doing, various monitoring and capture tools are available. These range from the fancy as provided by InstallShield and Wise, to the more simple.

Even if you have access to the upper end, the base utilities can sometimes do things you need.

Check out:

Regmon - http://www.microsoft.com/technet/sysinternals/utilities/Regmon.mspx

Packaging Tools

autoit

autoitX

http://www.appdeploy.com

Autoanswer dialog boxes, etc. Free tool recommended by Ben Reid

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