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With the help of this great MSDN article , my first idea was to simply check if the process is using an elevated Administrator group, and using AdjustTokenGroups() I would set the Administrator group to SE_GROUP_USE_FOR_DENY_ONLY . Unfortunately though, we can't modify the administrator group on the currently running process as it also has the SE_GROUP_MANDATORY attribute, which makes it inelligable for changing. The MSDN document has this to say about it: The AdjustTokenGroups function cannot disable groups with the SE_GROUP_MANDATORY attribute in the TOKEN_GROUPS structure. Use

I have a C# application which runs and displays a tray icon. I have an installer for my tray application which launches the application after installation. The installer requires admin permissions whereas the tray icon must be run with normal permissions. My installer currently breaks this - when the installed tray application is launched it inherits admin permissions from the installer process. As part of my installer I am launching a C# application to perform some custom work. This small application currently launches the tray application by calling: Process.Start(@"path/to/my/tray/app.exe")

I have an application that will be deployed as MSI package (authored in WiX). I am deciding whether to specify elevated or limited privileges as required for the installer. The application does not include anything requiring elevated privileges besides the default install location, which is under Program Files. Now the problem: If I specify elevated privileges , then the user is prompted by UAC for administrator password during the installation. This is not required and prevents non-admin users from installing. If I specify limited privileges , then the user is presented with a dialog to

I'm adding WMI publishing to a .net framework 3.5 based windows service that is running under the 'network service' account. According to a document I came across on MSDN , the 'network service' account should by default have WMI publishing permissions. (" By default, the following users and groups are allowed to publish data and events: ... Network Service , ... ") However, when the service calls Instrumentation.Publish(myStatusClassInstance), it throws a DirectoryNotFoundException; System.IO.DirectoryNotFoundException was unhandled Message: Could not find a part of the path 'C:\Windows

I'm trying to install xampp (xampp-win32-7.0.0-0-VC14-installer) but I get this warning message saying that "Because an activated UAC on your system, some functions of XAMPP are possibly restricted..." Here is xamp warning message screenshot: Although I have already disabled UAC settings and gave permission to C drive and its subfolders, I still get this message. Here is my UAC settings's screenshot: If anyone could help me to fix this problem, I would appriciate. Thank you! Moving the slider down doesn't completely disable UAC since Windows 8. This is changed compared to Windows 7, because

I have an app with a manifest that requires running as administrator, but part of the app is to map a drive using WNetAddConnection2 which I believe requires it to be run in the normal user context due to credentials etc. Is there a way to execute this bit of code in the normal user context without creating a separate process. EDIT From the comments I have got this far but it doesnt work. I expected it not to as I dont really understand quite how I should use this. Perhaps it best if I open a new question? class Program { [DllImport("advapi32.DLL")] public static extern bool

I'm working with some legacy applications (10-15 years old), and am trying to find guidance on the "right" way to install and run them (and any user application) on Windows 7 without requiring full Admin privileges. In other words, where executable/read-only should files go, where user-data/read-write should files go, where registry entries should go, to avoid issues with the UAC and Windows 7 file/registry virtualization during both installation and at run-time. I seem to remember, years ago, a Microsoft white paper on this subject, but am unable to find any relevent information now. I have

For a while now the installer for my program has used the below code to make my app run with administer privileges. But it seems to have no effect under Windows 7. In Vista it worked beautifully. If I right click the shortcut and tell it to run as Administer, the program will start fine. But by using the below, code it should be made to run the program that way all the time. It doesn't anymore. Does anyone know if Win 7 still uses this key? UAC is also on by the way. Registry.SetValue(@"HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows NT\ CurrentVersion\AppCompatFlags\Layers", "C:\App\app.exe",