# Running ember app on Windows and admin rights

**URL:** <https://discuss.emberjs.com/t/running-ember-app-on-windows-and-admin-rights/8904>\
**Category:** Ember CLI\
**Created:** [October 3, 2015, 3:30pm UTC](https://discuss.emberjs.com/t/running-ember-app-on-windows-and-admin-rights/8904 "2015-10-03T15:30:20Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![harimath](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/76d3ee/32.png) [@harimath](https://discuss.emberjs.com/u/harimath)\
**Post date:** [October 3, 2015, 3:30pm UTC](https://discuss.emberjs.com/t/running-ember-app-on-windows-and-admin-rights/8904/1 "2015-10-03T15:30:20Z")

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Here is what I have observed while running a simple Ember app on personal Windows 7 machine (using ember-cli)

**Case A** Running via command prompt as normal user takes around 60-70 seconds for the build

**Case B** Running via command prompt as admin takes around 3-4 seconds for the build

For both cases, I have the SymLink thing created.

Now my question is; when I run on company-provided Windows 7 system which has admin restrictions, is there some way of hacking this…meaning admin-level access just for running my ember app OR anything that can be thought? One thing is for sure I would never get full-admin rights.

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**Author:** ![broerse](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/discuss.emberjs.com/broerse/32/9497_2.png) [@broerse](https://discuss.emberjs.com/u/broerse)\
**Post date:** [October 3, 2015, 5:33pm UTC](https://discuss.emberjs.com/t/running-ember-app-on-windows-and-admin-rights/8904/2 "2015-10-03T17:33:43Z")

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You can use [pogostick](http://pogostick.net/~pnh/ntpasswd/) for this. It will get you local admin rights.

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**Author:** ![harimath](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/76d3ee/32.png) [@harimath](https://discuss.emberjs.com/u/harimath)\
**Post date:** [October 4, 2015, 11:47am UTC](https://discuss.emberjs.com/t/running-ember-app-on-windows-and-admin-rights/8904/3 "2015-10-04T11:47:20Z")

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Thanks…But again there might be company restrictions on installing on the system…looking at something which can work with company restrictions.

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**Author:** ![DanielNesbitt](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/discuss.emberjs.com/danielnesbitt/32/10205_2.png) [@DanielNesbitt](https://discuss.emberjs.com/u/DanielNesbitt)\
**Post date:** [October 7, 2015, 1:43pm UTC](https://discuss.emberjs.com/t/running-ember-app-on-windows-and-admin-rights/8904/4 "2015-10-07T13:43:09Z")

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We’re in the same boat. We have the `SeCreateSymbolicLinkPrivilege` set, but our builds still take 10 times longer in a normal user prompt as opposed to an admin prompt.

Our IT will enable any permissions we need after a short review, but they can’t give us blanket admin privileges. Does anyone know what additional privileges need to set?

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**Author:** ![broerse](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/discuss.emberjs.com/broerse/32/9497_2.png) [@broerse](https://discuss.emberjs.com/u/broerse)\
**Post date:** [October 7, 2015, 5:05pm UTC](https://discuss.emberjs.com/t/running-ember-app-on-windows-and-admin-rights/8904/5 "2015-10-07T17:05:07Z")

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Take a look at:

[ember-cli-windows/setup-search.ps1 at master · adopted-ember-addons/ember-cli-windows · GitHub](https://github.com/felixrieseberg/ember-cli-windows/blob/master/powershell/setup-search.ps1)[ember-cli-windows/setup-defender.ps1 at master · adopted-ember-addons/ember-cli-windows · GitHub](https://github.com/felixrieseberg/ember-cli-windows/blob/master/powershell/setup-defender.ps1)