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Requesting Administrator privileges during runtime

How do I request Administrator privileges during runtime so the user is given the prompt to allow or disallow it?

Solution

  • This information is written in the exe file manifest. You must use the requestedExecutionLevel field (but not sure about that - try setting it to highestAvailable and see if it does what you need). See for example here for more information (somewhat older article but still valid): Link

    There are tools in Visual Studio which allow you to embed your own manifest or even just edit it. Also there is a tool written in Perl ( http://metacpan.org/pod/Win32::Exe::Manifest ).

    EDIT: see this article for more info: http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/66259/Requesting-Admin-Approval-at-Application-Start.aspx