How to launch unelevated exe from elevated AHK script?

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I'm trying to launch Spotify, if it's not running, by pressing the Play/Pause button on the keyboard.

I have this.

Media_Play_Pause::
Process, Exist, spotify.exe
if ErrorLevel
{
    Send {Media_Play_Pause}
}
else
{
    Run, Spotify
}
return

This works, but since my ahk is ran as admin, Spotify also runs as admin. Why is this bad? because elevated Spotify doesn't show the media control buttons in the taskbar preview, and it creates a new icon on the taskbar separate from the pinned Spotify icon.

Is there any way to run Spotify as normal user and not as admin?

windows-10 autohotkey windows
2 Answers

Get Shell to run the program for you.
Here's one implementation, and here's an other.
Don't have any opinions for which would be better, both seem to work for me.

Usage of either of the functions in your script would be:

Media_Play_Pause::
    Process, Exist, spotify.exe
    if (ErrorLevel)
        SendInput, {Media_Play_Pause}
    else
        ShellRun("Spotify") ; I don't have Spofify, so I didn't try using this short name for it. If it doesn't work, try to specify the full path of the exe
return

; copy paste the function here
user_38137320

You are looking for RunAs

For example:

RunAs, UserName, UserPassword
Run, Spotify

Should run the Spotify as the User you have specified, which you could specify to be your own user profile [you need to replace UserName and UserPassword with the correct credentials in order for this to work]

If you are unsure of what your user name is, you can list all of them by using the net user command in command prompt.

Here is what your code would look like with this change:

Media_Play_Pause::
Process, Exist, spotify.exe
if ErrorLevel
{
    Send {Media_Play_Pause}
}
else
{
    RunAs, UserName, UserPassword ;Change these to be the correct values!
    Run, Spotify
}
return
user_143621910
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