Set the environment variable __compat_layer for your process to RunAsInvoker. If this environment variable is set, CreateProcess will succeed. You can use the SetEnvironmentVariable function for this purpose.
The answer to your question is: No, you cannot do that. Microsoft specifically is forbidding such behavior. If a applications could add themselves to an exclude list, then we get back into the mess we had before. What you need to do is make your program not require administrative access. Ask yourself: What did you … Read more
No, the kernel does not require that the integrity level and elevation type of a token match up with the status of the Administrators group. This means that a process having a high integrity level, or TokenElevationTypeFull, does not necessarily have administrator access. In particular, note that using runas /trustlevel:0x20000 from an administrative command prompt … Read more
The correct solution is given as a short comment by ChristianWimmer above: The desktop must have a security descriptor that allows access to lower integrity level like IE has. Otherwise the GUI cannot access the desktop. – ChristianWimmer Jul 22 ’10 at 17:00 Since the answer is a little bit hidden and there’s no source … Read more
Quick description: Make a new console/window application to run any application bypassing UAC choosing the path of your target application in this application as guided below, compile this program once, and run anytime Step by step Download Microsoft.Win32.TaskScheduler.dll from This link => Original Source => dllme.com Make a c# application (Windows or Console) and add … Read more
You have to do following things: 1. Get who is logged in and in this user has an active desktop 2. Get process’ handle started by this user 3. “Steal” credentials from this process 4. Start process with those credentials Following code should do the trick: using System; using System.Text; using System.Security; using System.Management; using … Read more
For those of us working in C#, in the Windows SDK there is a “UACDemo” application as a part of the “Cross Technology Samples”. They find if the current user is an administrator using this method: private bool IsAdministrator { get { WindowsIdentity wi = WindowsIdentity.GetCurrent(); WindowsPrincipal wp = new WindowsPrincipal(wi); return wp.IsInRole(WindowsBuiltInRole.Administrator); } } … Read more
Include this section in the program’s manifest file: <compatibility xmlns=”urn:schemas-microsoft-com:compatibility.v1″> <application> <!–The ID below indicates application support for Windows Vista –> <supportedOS Id=”{e2011457-1546-43c5-a5fe-008deee3d3f0}”/> <!–The ID below indicates application support for Windows 7 –> <supportedOS Id=”{35138b9a-5d96-4fbd-8e2d-a2440225f93a}”/> <!–The ID below indicates application support for Windows 8 –> <supportedOS Id=”{4a2f28e3-53b9-4441-ba9c-d69d4a4a6e38}”/> <!–The ID below indicates application support for Windows … Read more
Lower-privileged processes cannot drag-and-drop to higher-privileged ones on Vista and later. The bottom line is that drag and drop from Windows Explorer will not work if your application is elevated. https://web.archive.org/web/20190118125513/https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/patricka/2010/01/28/q-why-doesnt-drag-and-drop-work-when-my-application-is-running-elevated-a-mandatory-integrity-control-and-uipi/
This is a bug in “Apps & features” as far as I know. The WiX people have closed this issue as a Windows bug and I assume they have notified the correct people @ Microsoft. The behavior is still the same in Insider build 15042 though so it is probably not going to get fixed … Read more