How to design autostart application that runs as admin on Windows Vista/7?

Question

I have the need for my application to start and stop Windows Services based on certain events. The thing is that this application needs to run as an elevated normal user (In

Answer 1

Definitely go with option 2 and specifically use WCF (Windows Communication Foundation) to communicate with the Windows Service using wsHTTPS binding so that you can authenticate that the logged in user is allowed to perform the actions on the WCF Service hosted by the Windows Service.