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

Question

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

Answer 1

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]