WindowsError: [Error 740] The requested operation requires elevation even after disabling UAC

elevation, python, uac, windows-8

Solution

You could try using:

subprocess.call(["abcd.exe"], shell=True)

Basically the important part here is `shell=True`; if set to False, then you will get the following error.

WindowsError: [Error 740]

Problem

I have disabled UAC and running my script in python. ``` command = "abcd.exe" subprocess.Popen(command,stdout=subprocess.PIPE,stderr=subprocess.PIPE).communicate() ``` Also, I set the application `abcd.exe` from its property to run as admin. Then I'm getting the following error: WindowsError: [Error 740] The requested operation requires elevation

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