Run jar file without admin rights - windows

Question

I have a runnable jar file, that I start with
java -jar myFile.jar
on Windows. A customer stated that he had problems starting the application (which is this jar file wrapped into an executable). I have the suspicion that it has something to do with admin rights. So I'd like to run my jar file without admin rights for testing purposes (because this way I get the System.out/err which helps greatly for debugging).
I realize that I can just create a non-admin account and start the application there, but I'd like to know if there is a way to specifically start a jar from an admin account so that it doesn't have admin rights in the console. Or alternatively: Is there a way to open up a console that has no admin rights from an admin account?
The customer uses Windows XP, so this is the operating system that I can use. (Although if you know something in a newer Windows like Win7, I appreciate it if you would tell me too).
EDIT: To clarify: I am looking for something like this
java -jar -runWithoutAdminRights myFile.jar
or
start /runWithoutAdminRights java -jar myFile.jar
or a way to open up a non-admin console from an admin account.

Answer 1

The Runas command definitely looks like the way to go.
I believe the way to go about this would be to first check the trust level options available to you:
runas /showtrustlevels
You should get something like the following:
C:\Windows\system32>runas /showtrustlevels
The following trust levels are available on your system:
0x20000 (Basic User)
You would then take the value for "Basic User" and run something like the following to start java:
runas /trustlevel:0x20000 "java -jar myFile.jar"

Answer 2

You can follow the below steps:
Log in as the Administrator
Open the command line
Go to System32 folder (cd C:/Windows/System32)
execute: runas /user:computer_domain_name\user1 cmd
You will be asked to provide the user1's password. Afterwards a new command line opens with the user1's rights.
I have tried it and it worked.
In conclusion you can write a very simple batch which performs the steps 2,3,4 automatically so that when you click it, a command line will open with the rights of another user.
I hope this helps.

Answer 3

edit registry is best way to run jar file with administrator automatically.
is easy if you have setup for java application.
go to following path in registry:
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\AppCompatFlags\Layers
create a key(String Value) with following specification:
ValueName: java path+javaw.exe(example c:\program files\java\jre7\bin\javaw.exe)
ValueData: "WINXPSP3 RUNASADMIN"
Now All Jar Files Runs to Administartor