Giving applications Admin Rights

[Mcingo]

Hello, I have a small question maybe someone can help me with.

Im running Vista Home Prem. 64, Im trying to get two applications of mine to open with Admin rights when going through a shortcut. I'm going to the actual file within Program Files/Application/exe. and right clicking it to bring up the Properties.

Now within the Properties / Compatibiliy... I see the option checkbox for "Run this Program as an Administrator", but it appears greyed out. How do I get this option to become active, so I do not have to right click and select "Run as Admin" everytime I want to open the application?

I am the admin for the computer, it is just my home computer, built and installed by myself. Your help is greatly appreciated and I look forward to hearing a solution.

Thanks for your time

Mike

 

[FightingScallion]

A couple questions:

Have you disabled UAC? If so, then it shouldn't matter, so I could see Vista greying it out.

Have you looked at other applications to see if it's an option?

Do you have multiple accounts and you're on one of your non-administrative accounts?

 

[Mcingo]

I dont have UAC turned off.

I've checked all my other apps and its also an option (mainly game .exe's)

Just my Account.

 

[FightingScallion]

Are these applications you developed? For some reason, I seem to recall flipping through some instructions for developers on how to make administrative applications. You might want to check Microsoft's site for developers.

 

[Brink]

Hello, I have a small question maybe someone can help me with.

Im running Vista Home Prem. 64, Im trying to get two applications of mine to open with Admin rights when going through a shortcut. I'm going to the actual file within Program Files/Application/exe. and right clicking it to bring up the Properties.

Now within the Properties / Compatibiliy... I see the option checkbox for "Run this Program as an Administrator", but it appears greyed out. How do I get this option to become active, so I do not have to right click and select "Run as Admin" everytime I want to open the application?

I am the admin for the computer, it is just my home computer, built and installed by myself. Your help is greatly appreciated and I look forward to hearing a solution.

Thanks for your time

Mike

Hi Mike,

You can manually enter this program into the Compatibility Mode list in the registry. It will then act like you clicked Run as administrator. See step 5 in this tutorial for how.

How to See and Change the List of Programs in Compatibility Mode in Vista

Shawn