Jesper

The design guidance for handling this situation is to factor the application
into two components: a service that runs elevated, and a user-mode component
that runs as the user. As part of that factoring you should write an LPC
mechanism so the two can communicate.

"Oleg" wrote:

> Thank you for your responses.
>
> My program is a GUI application where most of the time it resides as an icon
> on the system tray.
> So, running it as a Windows Service is not an option.
>
> I wonder how all those GUI applications at the system tray interact with the
> system components, which requires administrative privilege?
> Apparently, I need to do a similar job rather than what you've descibed
> below.