For cases when you need to execute a VBS script (*.vbs file) as admin with elevated privileges you can try the following snippet. This can be done by running ShellExecute and setting the runas flag to run an executable or to run an entire script (batch file or VBScript) with elevated permissions. You can copy/embed the following snippet into your vbscript file or batch file. This should result in executing your script as admin just by double-clicking it.

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This is in continuation to the last post where we saw how to read windows environment variables using VBScript. As mentioned in the last post, we can use the following preferred methods to achieve this :

In the below example we would be using the WSH Shell’s Environment method.

For ‘strEnvVarType’, the valid parameters for Environment are PROCESS, SYSTEM, USER and VOLATILE.

You can additionally specify the name of a specific environment variable using ‘strEnvVarName’ for example TEMP, PATH, PATHEXT, etc.

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Reading an environment variable is simple. There are a couple of methods available to do this but the main preferred ones are the below two :

In the below example we would be using the WSH Shell’s Environment method.

For ‘envVarType’, the valid parameters for Environment are PROCESS, SYSTEM, USER and VOLATILE.

You can additionally specify the name of a specific environment variable using ‘envVarName’ for example TEMP, PATH, PATHEXT, etc.

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