How to prevent Vista from requiring elevation on patch.exe?

Question

[I\'m sorry that this isn\'t directly a programming question. But I have recently switched to a new Vista machine where I am keeping UAC enabled (please don\'t tell me to di

Answer 1

From:
http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/windowsgeneraldevelopmentissues/thread/bf4f7dfa-5553-41d3-9c8e-311ee4a88599/

If you can add a manifest to the affected executable declaring a requestedExecutionLevel of 'asInvoker' it should stop prompting.

Associated guide on UAC architecture and converting existing applications so they work correctly (near the bottom fifth of the page):

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc709628.aspx

Lastly, how to write such a manifest:

http://www.google.com/search?q=writing+a+uac+manifest

-Adam