VBA: How to run another application from MS Access

Question

I\'ve been trying to get this issue figured out, and it seems that I cannot find the solution to the problem anywhere. Here was the first part: VBA Shell command always retu

Answer 1

Just messing about with http://www.mombu.com/microsoft/scripting-wsh/t-vista-uac-problem-with-wscriptshell-run-method-1508617.html. I tried this on Windows 7 home PC.

Set objShell = CreateObject("Shell.Application")
myPath = Environ("ProgramFiles(x86)") & "\mytool"
Set objFolder = objShell.Namespace(myPath)
Set objFolderItem = objFolder.ParseName("mytool.exe")
objFolderItem.InvokeVerb "runas"

It might give you some ideas.