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

I upvoted the accepted answer, because it is the correct one, but, sometimes we do need to eat our cake and have it too.

I found this tool to work beautifully from batch files or from startup:

https://github.com/alexey-gusarov/elevate

Can be installed via chocolatey:

choco install elevate