Enable "Ask for admin privileges once for each batch of operations" remotely by command/script?

[YuriMri]

Hi.
Is there any option to enable setting "Ask for admin privileges once for each batch of operations" remotely?
I am deploying UniGetUI as software updater for users in our company and managed to silently deploy it without user interaction (installed for all users).
Then I set registry entry for all users making UniGetUI run after login and last part I would like to achieve is that when users see couple of software packages pending, hit one "Update all", accept UAC and have it all installed while they go for lunch or meeting or whatever so when they come back, all will be updated.

I found this setting "Ask for admin privileges once for each batch of operations" that basically does the trick, but I'd like to set up whole UniGet so users don't have to switch it on manually after UniGet installation is finished.

Is there a way of enabling it or achieving my goal different way?
Thank you

[marticliment]

Settings deployment is not a thing yet, but if you create an empty file under %localappdata%\UniGetUI named DoCacheAdminRightsForBatches and then restart UniGetUI the feature should get enabled

[YuriMri]

@marticliment Thank you. Exactly what I needed for this job (clever design by the way and easy to manage).

I noticed that changing the settings in the program will create or remove files from the "%localappdata%\UniGetUI" directory. Not tested all settings so want to ask if all settings works this way or are there any exceptions?
Just wondering what can I tweak with this.

[Lockszmith-GH]

I searched for `` in the code, and saw that it was being called by Setting.Get, which is defined as:

        public static bool Get(string setting, bool invert = false)
        {
            return File.Exists(Path.Join(CoreData.UniGetUIDataDirectory, setting)) ^ invert;
        }

So it seems that is the design choice @marticliement made was that all settings are saved like that.

From the code view, GitHub should present you with a Symbol legend side bar, select the Get method, and find all the references (currently there are 13).

click to view screenshot

Out of the 13, I managed to identify these:

• DisableSystemTray
• DisableNotifications
• DisableUpdatesNotifications
• DisableErrorNotifications
• DisableSuccessNotifications
• DisableProgressNotifications
• IconDataBaseURL
• UseUserGSudo
• DisableAutoUpdateWingetUI
• DisableApi
• SkippedInstalling{dependency.Name}

But clearly there are more (I mean, DoCacheAdminRightsForBatches doesn't show up), so I also searched for Settings.Get - that brought a lot more results.

[marticliment]

So it seems that is the design choice @marticliement made was that all settings are saved like that.

Yes, but this will be changed in a future, since this was a terrible choice from my side (very slow on slower file systems).

But yes, if you enable a setting you will see a file appear on %localappdata%\UniGetUI, and this is the name of the setting