How to run adb commands on a machine without admin access on Windows 7?

I did set up of Android, Java and Eclipse to start up my project but soon after running my emulator a few times I got error like “The connection to adb is down, and a severe error has occured.”

I referred to this question and got answer but while running adb from command prompt I am getting error as "'adb' is not recognized as an internal or external command,operable program or batch file."

How to run this adb commands without admin rights on machine?

Solution

You getting error like "'adb' is not recognized as an internal or external command,operable program or batch file." has nothing to do with your admin rights.

Follow the steps:

Go to folder location where your 'adb.exe' is located.
copy the path and open cmd prompt and paste your folder location Example: C:\Users\298xxx>C:\Android\adt-bundle-windows-x86-20131030\adt-bundle-windows-x8 6-20131030\sdk\platform-tools\adb.exe
Run any adb command you want like C:\Users\298xxx>C:\Android\adt-bundle-windows-x86-20131030\adt-bundle-windows-x86-20131030\sdk\platform-tools \adb.exe devices List of devices attached emulator-5554 device

Problem is that in machine you need to set path of ADB.exe in system properties but you didn't had access as admin which don't allowed you to open/work directly with system related things like install/uninstall/path setting and many more.

Another way to do the same is

press ctrl+alt+del to open task manager
Go to File --> New Task -- > and copy paste the path of you adb.exe (space) devices to check for devices attached to your machine.