Run as Administrator

Stefan Kamphuis — Sat, 01 Nov 2008 12:02:37 GMT

So, finally, about 8 months after I had my laptop upgraded from 2 to 4 GB of memory, I found the time to install Vista 64-bit. Finally the 4th gig will be used too.

This time, as opposed to last time, I decided to keep UAC enabled. Now, there are of course some applications I always want to run as an Administrator. The fist one I encountered, not very surprisingly, was Visual Studio.

Luckily, there's this very simple trick in Vista, that allows you to always run an application as an Administrator:

Open Explorer and browse to the executable file for the application
Right click the executable en choose Properties
Click on the Compatibility tab
Check the "Run this program as an administrator" checkbox:

You will get prompted for consent on running the application elevated, but I'm happy.

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Run as Administrator