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Force running a program as non-administrator in Vista

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Mar 15, 20263118 views
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I've just installed, on Vista 32-bit, a program which in my opinion shouldn't require administrator rights. It's not installed in a system directory, and its purpose shouldn't obviously require any special privileges. However, the .exe has a UAC shield on it, and it asks me to elevate privileges im…

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Fix for: Force running a program as non-administrator in Vista

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For this particular program, you can get around the UAC requirement: Instead of running Pencil normally, create a shortcut to , and then add to the end, so the short cut is: This will let you run Pencil normally, without UAC. Source: http://code.goo…

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