Need to elevate permissions without UAC pop ups

Question

I have an application which is a launcher for another application (my main one). The launcher goes to an FTP server, downloads updates and installs them. However, the update

Answer 1

Doing so would violate the basic principle of User Access Control.

There is no way to elevate permissions while avoiding the prompts, by design. If there was a way to do this, UAC would become useless.

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That being said, you could try to design around the issue. Instead of making your program a startup/system tray application, you may want to consider making a windows service that does the update. This could run as an administrator on boot (instead of login), and it would already run with elevated permissions.

If you need a system tray application, it could be a separate app that "talks" to the service.