Installing .inf files if you are living the non-admin lifestyle

I am still sort of new in this “non-admin lifestyle”, so for you veterans this will probably be old hat to you…

Last weekend I edited Mike Gunderloy’s VS.Net Command Prompt Here script for VS.Net 2005 … which works fine, but how do you install it if you are a non-admin user?

Two Steps:

1. Go to Aaron Margosis’ weblog and download his MakeMeAmin script
1. Run this script (which will basically make your user administrator for a session that gets opened up after you typed in you passwords - read Aaron's write up to learn more about it)
2. At the command prompt that you now have an admin session for, move to the directory your .inf file is in (my example is for the VS.Net command prompt here script).
1. Type the following: rundll32 syssetup,SetupInfObjectInstallAction DefaultInstall 128 .\<filename>

Example:

C:\_utilities\rundll syssetup,SetupInfObjectInstallAction DefaultInstall 128 .\vsnet2005cmdhere.inf

In this example my .inf file resides in the C:\_utilities directory.

posted on Monday, May 30, 2005 9:18 AM