UAC and WinForms

Question

Hello How can I make a button that requests the admin priviledges from the user? Just like UAC works in Windows, if a program needs admin rights, you get an UAC window. I will mark the correct post as answer of course. thanks

Answer 1

You cant. You need to specify your whole app is running elevated, OR you can do things a-la-mozilla style, create a helper app that does run as admin, and call it from your UAC button.

Comment if you want clarification.

Answer 2

See this example on CodeProject .

You will have to restart your application to elevate its rights.