Open IE as an admin

[Purvi (Purvi Singhal)]

Greetings,

Please give the directions how to automate the process to open Internet Explorer as an administrator.

Thanks in advance for the help.

[nadim.warsi]

Which windows version are you on?

[loginerror (Maciej Kuźmicz)]

Hi @Purvi

Please see this post:

While running powershell using invoke activity it throws exception "windows powershell run as administrator"

Hi @Mahashankaripazhani Supported by this thread, I was able to make a simple process: [image] [image] However, running this will prompt the UAC (which would need to be disabled for this to work, which is highly not recommanded). Actually, there is a solution to it (credit to out of our awesome uipathers). See his explanation below: I use the activity invoking a script. If the script tries to invoke: Start-Process notepad.exe -Verb runAs then the UAC dialog will appear …

There is a sample at the bottom that allows you to run an elevated process. You could replace the powershell with a path to your file to run it and then use the Attach Browser to attach to your IE