Restart program unelevated

Question

For some reason, my C# program needs to restart with elevated privileges. I use the following code to achieve it:

private static void RestartForPermissionsFi         


        

Answer 1

I had the same problem with an application that I wanted to update automatically (The update program requires elevated privileges).

What I did was creating an external .exe that would start my updater program with elevated privileges, wait for it to exit, then restart my application with normal privileges.

I then embedded this .exe in my main application, and start this .exe just before leaving my application when I update it.