Elevated Privileges on Windows 7

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How to get Elevated Privileges on windows 7 programatically.
Actually i want to edit hosts file programatically but it gives error Access Denied to path.

Posted 23-Sep-12 23:19pm

Xeshan Ahmed

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Dylan Morley · Answer 1 · 2012-09-23T23:34:00

You can't - not just like that. If you could, it would kind of defeat the purpose wouldn't it?!

The preferred way is to create a manifest file set to requireAdministrator for your application -

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4084585/how-to-embed-a-manifest-file-at-compile-time-in-visual-studio-2010[^]

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2818179/how-to-force-my-net-app-to-run-as-administrator-on-windows-7[^]

Otherwise, you'd still need to perform some sort of imperstonation, which would result in a dialog to retrieve user name \ password credentials with which to perform the impersonation, which is essentially what you're doing with the manifest.