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Prevent elevation (UAC) for an application that doesn't need it

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Mar 15, 202632638 views
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Having recently migrated from Vista 32bit to Windows 7 64bit, one of my programs now requires admin rights. I use a rather exotic text editor (Crimson Editor). Although not designed for Vist/Win7 it worked well with Vista. But under Windows 7, the program executable gets this UAC shield added to it…

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Fix for: Prevent elevation (UAC) for an application that doesn't need it

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No, the reason Crimson Editor does this is NOT because it is unsigned. (And this is not new to Win7). It is because the application manifest, which is embedded at compile-time, specifies . According to this forum post, the Crimson Editor developers …

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