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How to Start a Process Unelevated

I had best results by cloning Explorer’s token as follows: var shellWnd = WinAPI.GetShellWindow(); if (shellWnd == IntPtr.Zero) throw new Exception(“Could not find shell window”); uint shellProcessId; WinAPI.GetWindowThreadProcessId(shellWnd, out shellProcessId); var hShellProcess = WinAPI.OpenProcess(0x00000400 /* QueryInformation */, false, shellProcessId); var hShellToken = IntPtr.Zero; if (!WinAPI.OpenProcessToken(hShellProcess, 2 /* TOKEN_DUPLICATE */, out hShellToken)) throw new Win32Exception(); uint … Read more

Elevating process privilege programmatically?

You can indicate the new process should be started with elevated permissions by setting the Verb property of your startInfo object to ‘runas’, as follows: startInfo.Verb = “runas”; This will cause Windows to behave as if the process has been started from Explorer with the “Run as Administrator” menu command. This does mean the UAC … Read more