I am trying to run World of Warcraft (without giving admin rights to the user in question) but the game launcher requires elevated privilages to run, the only "solutions" I have been able to find are to create a scheduled task with elevated permissions. Since a standard user cannot create tasks this doesn't work, so the only real work around would be to give the user admin rights to either run the application or create the scheduled task (which seems a bit pointless if they have admin access anyway). I would prefer to leave UAC enabled and not give the user admin rights (I am running Windows 7 Ultimate).

this is not possible. Put the user in the admin group and leave UAC turned on and you're safe, too."A programmer is just a tool which converts caffeine into code" CLIP- Stellvertreter http://www.winvistaside.de/

You're only safe if you trust the person using it not to be installing dodgy pieces of software from random shady websites :) Just seems a bit (for want of a better word) naff that the restriction is all or nothing and there is no room for any tailoring. I can't imagine that Warcraft is the only program to have such issues, and considering MS advise running on none admin accounts and using run as for things it seems to really restrict you if you want people to have "limited" accounts. Hey ho can't say's I'm all that surprised.

admin rights are mostly required because of the copy protection used by the games. I have no workaround for this."A programmer is just a tool which converts caffeine into code" CLIP- Stellvertreter http://www.winvistaside.de/

Whether it needs high privilege depends on the design of the program. We cannot change the behavior in Windows 7.Please remember to click Mark as Answer on the post that helps you, and to click Unmark as Answer if a marked post does not actually answer your question. This can be beneficial to other community members reading the thread.

Have you tried running WoW directly from the executable? The default WoW link is actually to Launcher.exe in the program folder, but there's another file (I assume it's wow.exe, but I don't have it in front of me) that the launcher launches. Every couple weeks, or whenever the game stops working properly for your user, you'd just need to run the launcher as an administrator to get whatever game updates have accumulated.