Random Stuff About Software

One thing I didn’t realize until the other day is that a Vista command prompt that is elevated is unable to control Outlook. I was testing some JScript code from an elevated prompt and got this error:

Microsoft (R) Windows Script Host Version 5.7
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C:\Users\psheed\SendMail.js(1, 1) Microsoft JScript runtime error: Automation server can't create object

Unfortunately the error message isn’t very helpful in diagnosing the problem. After trying a few things I eventually found out that the script would work fine if it was running from a non-elevated prompt. Now it makes sense, you can’t use code that is running elevated to control non-elevated code for security reasons.