Can I run RegAsm without being Administrator?

Question

My coworker is trying to register some COM components (which I wrote) via RegAsm.exe and it says he needs Administrator privileges. His account has admin privileges but he is not logged in as Administrator. Is there a way to use his regular user account and succeed at this task?

Answer 1

Admin privileges are required to allow Regasm.exe to update the registry. If this is a UAC restriction then create a shortcut on the desktop for cmd.exe and check the "Run this program as an administrator" checkbox. Or change this setting on the Visual Studio Command Prompt shortcut, that's easier.

Answer 2

Check this out: https://gist.github.com/florentbr/6be960752fc852ee99eece6b4acb8ba7 I was trying to do the same thing and was about to give up when I came upon it.

It's a cmd script that will register the SeleniumBasic.dll in the registry without having admin privileges. With a bit of work you should be able to repurpose the code to register your COM components.

Many, many thanks to Florent Breheret for SeleniumBasic and this cmd script to register it!