This article explains how to elevate an application during runtime. If your application would not require Admin rights except for certain occasions, you might prefer building your application with no specific requirement to be run in Admin mode, but when it needs to make a Registry change, only then, it will elevate itself to Admin mode. This article explains how that is done.
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