Many people add a “requireAdministrator” manifest to their Application to elevate their application in Vista. However itis not needed all the time so there is a second way that allows  to elevate the program even in Windows XP. The solution is to restart the application with ShellExecute and the “runas” verb. In Vista you’ll get [...]

Today I want to introduce a really useful application from the examples in JEDI Windows Security Code Library. In Windows Vista there is no possible way to run a program elevated from the command line. But today there is a cure. I call it RunEl, which stands for Run Elevated. This simple program uses Delphi, [...]