Ask Administative privilege only when needed..

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Hi friends,

I am developing a Windows Application in C#...
Sometimes I need administrative privilege to carry out some tasks in the program...
and, I dont want the application to ask for Administrative privileges at the startup,
I only need the program to ask when the task comes,,,,
How can I make it in my prgram ?

Posted 13-Aug-13 23:04pm

Yesudasan Moses

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Bernhard Hiller · Accepted Answer · 2013-08-13T23:43:00

You cannot.
Basically, all applications which pretend to do so use some hacks.
E.g. TaskManager: when you want to see tasks of all users, the program shuts down and restarts with admin priviledges.
Another possibility is to launch a different exe for the administrative tasks, and that exe is started with admin priviledges. in this case, your original program continues to run with normal user priviledges.
Now you may choose one of the two hacks or ask the user to start your program as admin when he plans to do such tasks.