I'm using a standard account for my regular activates as a security measure suggested by microsoft. While surfing on the net (dial-up connection) I used to see the data transfer rate & the application currently consuming it via Resource Monitor as this info is not available in task manages (which only shows Wi-Fi & Mobile Broadband). In my Standard user account i can't access the Resource Monitor without providing the admin credentials.

On the web I found a hint that one can schedule a task that allows a standard user to start an application that requires admin rights without providing the credentials, but sadly the provider of that hint doesn't add-up the ways to do it.

So please state a proper way to schedule a task that allows a standard user to start resource monitor without admin right.

And also state whether providing the admin credentials within a standard account (or) providing the resource monitor access via a scheduled task to my personal standard account would lapse the expected level of security.

Help on this regards...

Thanks in Advance,

Open up Task Scheduler through the start menu search box, and then on the right-hand side click the Create Task link.

The first thing you need to do is give the task a short, simple name, preferably without any spaces in it. Then check the box for Run with highest privileges 

Now switch to the Actions tab, click the New button, and then browse down to the application that you are trying to start.

Close out of the dialog by clicking the OK button, which should create the new task in the list. You can right-click on it and choose Run at this point, simply to make sure that it launches the application the way you were expecting.

At this point our scheduled tasks setup is done, so you can close out, just remember the name of task.

Create the Shortcut to Start the Task

Right-click anywhere on the desktop and choose New \ Shortcut from the menu.

Now heres where the real magic happens we need to add a command that will run the scheduled task, passing in the name of the task that we used.

schtasks /run /tn TASKNAMEINQUOTES

Now give your shortcut some useful name, and then click next to create it.

At this point you should have a shortcut that will launch the application in administrator mode.

You can create scheduled tasks and shortcuts using Group policies as well. 

Thanks for the reply Jeff (Netwrix),

Here is what I got,

> Created the task named 'runres' that 'Runs with highest privileges' using a administrator account and set "run whether the user is logged on or not" checked, so as to be started by a non-admin user.

> Triggers is left empty

> Action is set to Start a program - C:\Windows\system32\resmon.exe

> In Settings tab - "Allow task to be run on demand" is selected by default (just to make sure that it is available for the user to run on demand)

> A shortcut was created in the Standard user desktop with the command - "schtasks /run /tn "runres"

Result: As I double-clicked that shortcut, nothing was happened. Then I tried to check for mistakes in creation of this task, but it was good enough. Then i saw in the task manager, there i came to know that this resource monitor was running as a background-process. Reason is that resource monitor is not a default background-process, i checked it with a restart. Only after starting this shortcut, resource monitor begins to run as a background-process.

So, is there any workaround to get this done within the security limits,

Looking forward to it,

Thanks in advance,

check as this:

http://www.howtogeek.com/124087/how-to-create-a-shortcut-that-lets-a-standard-user-run-an-application-as-administrator/

Hi there,

Thanks for the reply,

I have already verified the link that you have provided, before posting my query, as I am a big fan of Howtogeek site. And please note that, in the very beginning of that page, Mr.Chris Hoffman, the author of that article, have Noted that using that method could be considered as a security hole.

Thanks for the effort......

• Edited by Gangatharran V L 17 hours 31 minutes ago

Thanks for the reply Jeff (Netwrix),

Here is what I got,

> Created the task named 'runres' that 'Runs with highest privileges' using a administrator account and set "run whether the user is logged on or not" checked, so as to be started by a non-admin user.

> Triggers is left empty

> Action is set to Start a program - C:\Windows\system32\resmon.exe

> In Settings tab - "Allow task to be run on demand" is selected by default (just to make sure that it is available for the user to run on demand)

> A shortcut was created in the Standard user desktop with the command - "schtasks /run /tn "runres"

Result: As I double-clicked that shortcut, nothing was happened. Then I tried to check for mistakes in creation of this task, but it was good enough. Then i saw in the task manager, there i came to know that this resource monitor was running as a background-process. Reason is that resource monitor is not a default background-process, i checked it with a restart. Only after starting this shortcut, resource monitor begins to run as a background-process.

So, is there any workaround to get this done within the security limits,

Looking forward to it,

Thanks in advance,

Overall by analyzing the result I got earlier, it seems that one can create a elevated shortcut for a standard user only for the third-part apps and for few system tools which does not have the option to run in background.

So Let's keep looking....

Thanks for the effort....

Hi there,

Thanks for the reply,

I have already verified the link that you have provided, before posting my query, as I am a big fan of Howtogeek site. And please note that, in the very beginning of that page, Mr.Chris Hoffman, the author of that article, have Noted that using that method could be considered as a security hole.

Thanks for the effort......

• Edited by Gangatharran V L Friday, March 06, 2015 2:43 PM