Guys, I know there has been many topics about running apps as an elevated admin whilst logged in as a standard user and there has been no real way to do it but then I found this application which can run something as SYSTEM and offer GUI to the logged in user... http://www.robotronic.de/runasroben.html This app is free for personal use but not for business and I would really like a free, working solution to use at work on a system where we just can't disable UAC (which I'd normally do to run scripts elevated without prompts) in order to run some development software. It seems that in order to run the app it has to have a service running as Session0 and then creates a child process as SYSTEM but in the user session to offer a GUI. I found a good example of such a setup here... http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/35773/Subverting-Vista-UAC-in-Both-32-and-64-bit-Archite So my question to the scripters here is is there any way to replicate that in my favourite language (AutoIt ofc)? Mike