SupportAssist run as admin

I am having the same issue.  I have even tried running it from an elevated command prompt.  I know that I can probably run it if I log in with an administrative account, but I am not going to do that every time the program says it has something to do. 

It has been four months since your post, and there is still no official reply.  It would be nice if someone from Dell would at least comment on this.  I am probably going to uninstall it if they do not care enough to help.

I have had this problem with one other program, and it was a security suite.  I do not understand why anyone would design a piece of software in a way that would make it so painful to use (this includes SupportAssist) - especially when that software is supposedly intended to make your PC safer.  Doing so discourages its use.

This is just a classic case of companies only putting out something quickly that makes consumers happy and not caring about people who actually support their equipment or safe practice policies. This would be an easy fix if the program was just an executable file rather than a Windows store app(apx?).

Thank you sooooo much it works like a bomb !

We have admin by request running - and I found my requesting admin access..., running a command prompt as admin, then running services.msc and restarting the Dell Support Assist Service it ran under admin privilege's and was able to run the parts that were failing

This worked for me. Thank you!

I'm trying to get 'Dell SupportAssist' to run with elevated privileges without the need for a local admin account - so far without success.

The Windows 11 machine is AzureAD joined to the tenant partition using an account which is reserved specifically for this purpose.  Once the machine is joined to AzureAD I want to be able to be able to run the 'SupportAssist' service as the domain account (which has local administrative privileges). 

Users will then login using name@company.com and if they require 'SupportAssist' it will have the necessary privileges to work.

Any ideas?

We're the same.  Very frustrating.  

I always thought of Dell as a good enterprise supplier, but this is ridiculous.

"C:\Program Files\Dell\SupportAssistAgent\bin\SupportAssistUI.exe" Launch 

use this in Admin CMD 

you can make a bat file and put it on start up to run as admin

@XPS_Man​ 

Sir

The command is not working. Please advise further.

@XPS_Man​ Can´t find this file. Seems to me that "SupportAssist for Home PC" doesn´t include a UI anymore.

This is poor design. The app should ASK for permissions not assume by itself who is and who is not the admin. There are various security tools that allow standard user to authorize as "admin" and this simple app completely breaks the flow. Does Dell provides something else for enterprises to address this issue?

Its common practice for tech companies to push out software that doesn't work correctly.

Many thanks to the community for finding something that resembles a fix.

Are there any risks for running the service as an admin?
I also wanted to point out this software says it is for home users,

is there a version for businesses?

I've just got off the phone with Dell technical support

Due to the reasons outlined above, its recommended to use Dell Command Update for updating devices in a business setting.