[BRLTTY] Windows First Run

Chevelle cstrobel at crosslink.net
Wed Oct 9 21:00:02 EDT 2019


     Yes, Dave, the batch files could presumably be written in Visual 
BASIC.  The example seems to contain a couple lines of VBS code.  I 
think it was intended as a drop-in solution for existing batch files.

I haven't done much with VBS.


On 10/8/2019 10:39 PM, Dave Mielke wrote:
> [quoted lines by Chevelle on 2019/10/08 at 20:58 -0400]
>
>> Yes, possibly when you zip the files and move it to another system, the
>> security properties get changed.
> Perhaps, but, to my knowledge, the .zip file isn't being made with any special
> security properties.
>
>> There is a description of how to create a batch file that elevates itself at
>> this URL.
>>
>> https://stackoverflow.com/questions/6811372/how-to-code-a-bat-file-to-always-run-as-admin-mode
> The explanation of that code says that it creates a .vbs script which elevates
> the privilegs and then reruns the original .bat script. Mightn't it be better,
> then, to just rewrite each of the three .bat scruots as .vbs scripts?
>


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