For anyone else reading this, you should note that passing in NULL for the window handle is not advised since this can (and usually will) cause a dialog to be displayed.  (This assumes your application has some UI which triggers this action).  If you pass in NULL, then the dialog will be associated with the desktop window and be centered on the screen.  Instead, if you assign a valid window handle to it, the dialog will be displayed over the window whose handle you specify.  That provides a good visual correlation between the dialog which is displayed and the window which causes the action.  Just a little usability tip.  :-)

Otherwise, awesome blog topic!

Hi Maarten:

   I am having trouble with this function "ShellExecute" or "ShellExecuteEx".

   I hope to run telnet in Viata elevated thought ShellExecute.

   I have had to install the telnet client program.

   I tried the same as above syntax, but the system is passed as follow error message:

         "Windows cannot find 'telnet.exe'. Make sure you typed the name correctly, and then try again."

snippet code:

ShellExecute:

wsprintf(str, "telnet://%s", inet_ntoa(ip));

HINSTANCE ret = ShellExecute(Handle, NULL, str, 0, 0, SW_SHOWNORMAL);

ShellExecuteEx:

     SHELLEXECUTEINFO shExecInfo;

     shExecInfo.cbSize = sizeof(SHELLEXECUTEINFO);

     shExecInfo.fMask = NULL;

     shExecInfo.hwnd = NULL;

     shExecInfo.lpVerb = "runas";

     shExecInfo.lpFile = "telnet.exe";

     shExecInfo.lpParameters = inet_ntoa(ip);

     shExecInfo.lpDirectory = "C:\\Windows\\System32";

     shExecInfo.nShow = SW_SHOWNORMAL;

     shExecInfo.hInstApp = NULL;

     ShellExecuteEx(&shExecInfo);

Would you tell me, how can i do. Thanks a lot and so sorry my English is so poor.

Frank.

How would you advise transfering information between process that calls ShellExecute and the newly (elevated) process?

Regards,

T.

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