fboulnois / tir

A tiny Windows program to run as Trusted Installer

TIR: A tiny Windows program to run as Trusted Installer

Trusted Installer is a system account on Windows which is more powerful than Administrator and has full access to the system. This is useful when scripting installation or configuration tasks, such as removing Windows Store apps or modifying system registry keys.

TIR allows you to run any program as Trusted Installer. By default, it runs powershell.exe as Trusted Installer.

Usage

Caution

Be careful when running a program as Trusted Installer, as it will have full access to the system. This can compromise, damage, or destroy your system. Only run programs you trust and understand.

Quickstart

1. Download the latest release from the Releases page.
2. Right-click and run tir.exe as an Administrator.
3. A new powershell.exe window will open running as Trusted Installer. You can verify this by running whoami in the PowerShell window and it should return nt authority\system.

Command Line

TIR can be used to run any program as Trusted Installer. To do this, run TIR from the command line and specify the program you want to run as a command line argument. For example, to run cmd.exe as Trusted Installer, run:

tir.exe cmd.exe

Build

TIR can be built using the included Makefile or Dockerfile. The Makefile requires x86_64-w64-mingw32-gcc to be installed. On Debian, this is available in the gcc-mingw-w64-x86-64 package.