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I'm trying to write a batch file that creates a new directory in %programfiles% . It needs to be run as admin. I've tried: runas /user:admin-pc\admin "mkdir C:\Program Files\MyDir" runas /user:admin-pc\admin "mkdir \"C:\Program Files\MyDir\"" runas /user:admin-pc\admin "cmd /c mkdir \"C:\Program Files\MyDir\"" runas /user:admin-pc\admin "cmd /c mkdir %programfiles%\MyDir" runas /user:admin-pc\admin "cmd /c mkdir \"C:/Program Files/MyDir\"" runas /user:admin-pc\admin "cmd /c mkdir C:\Program^ Files\MyDir" What's the right way to do this? The question turned out to be IExpress specific. You cam

I'd looked around for information to convert a VBScript (*.vbs) to an executable and realised that most of the tools available are actually wrapping the script in the executable. Tried a few tools and it didn't worked as well as expected. I tried IExpress (in Windows XP) to create the Win32 self extraction cab file but it didn't invoke properly on Windows 7 machines. So I am looking for a way to compile the vbs into exe. I am trying to port my current script into VB Express 2008 but I have no prior knowledge of Visual Basic here. There are a lot of errors but I am still trying around. Can

There are many reasons to want to 'convert' a .bat to .exe - to hide/obfuscate implementation, passwords, path to resources , to create a service from batch file ... and mainly to make your work to look more complicated and important than it really is. There are also many reasons to not want to use third party tools. So what if you want to 'convert' a batch file to .exe without external software? (convert is in quotes because I don't think there's really way to compile a batch file to executable. There are too many abusive twisty techniques and bugs used extensively and all the tools that I