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uusarath
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10 years ago

i was not able to run a bat file as administrator from test complete

I was not able to execute  batch file  as administrator.

 

i was trying to execute the below commands from batch file

 

for /f "skip=1 tokens=3" %%s in ('query user %USERNAME%') do (
  %windir%\System32\tscon.exe %%s /dest:console
)

 

I tried launching the Test Complete as Administator and nothing worked.

 

Please help me on this

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  • joseph_michaud's avatar
    joseph_michaud
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    10 years ago

    You're on a 64-bit OS and the 'query' command is only available in a 64-bit environment.  A 32-bit CMD shell (which is what you get when you try to run a BAT file or invoke CMD.EXE from 32-bit TestComplete) does not have the query command.

     

    To get the BAT file to run in a 64-bit environment, you'll have to invoke a 64-bit CMD shell from TestComplete and run the BAT file from that CMD shell.  To do that, use the following on your TestedApps Application and Command-line parameters lines:

     

    C:\Windows\sysnative\cmd.exe

    /c <your bat filename here>

     

     

    There is a little bit of info here ( Getting System Folder Paths ) and somewhat more here ( PROCESSOR_ARCHITEW6432 ) and elsewhere on the web.