I would like to know if there is a way to force a program to run as normal user in Win 7 Pro, most likely disregarding its manifest . <background> Since most games requires admin privileges to be installed, I use the following turnaround: - install the program as admin into a directory of a normal user - using the security tab properties transfer access rights and ownership (*) of the installed directory to normal user and propagate changes to all child objects - now the game can be run as a normal user and doesn't complain (*) is not always necessary but sometimes it is so I do it by default This normally works <problem>For one particular program it doesn't. Every application in the subdirectory still requires to use admin privileges (the app icon is shown with the shield). <failed attempts> No amount of tampering with permissions (including removing the administrators from the users allowed to run the program) would convince the application of not asking the credential login for admin). <possible explanation?> Clearly "somewhere" the application registered itself to require admin privileges (which it doesn't need as everything it generates when gaming is in the normal directory). Where this place could be? How could this overwritten? Another possibility is that the game developers might have embedded some privilege escaltion in their application (see link below), but I don't think that is the case as the other games of the same family works fine. http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb756929.aspx Thanks, BN

I am having the EXACT same problem today. I need this software to run as a "NORMAL" user and it INSISTS on asking for elvated credentials to run. I've already tried everything you mentioned and resorted to google which got me here. Does anyone have any ideas? Thanks, Dennis

"Dennis-IT" wrote in message news:c2563d89-94b4-433c-81c7-5f1b46b6453d... I am having the EXACT same problem today. I need this software to run as a "NORMAL" user and it INSISTS on asking for elvated credentials to run. I've already tried everything you mentioned and resorted to google which got me here. Does anyone have any ideas? Thanks, Dennis I suspect that you need to install the game outside of the Program Files folder - it's probably attempting to re-write a file which is protected by UAC (such as a game.ini file). -- Noel Paton | Nil Carborundum Illegitemi | CrashFixPC | The Three-toed Sloth