Below I have put together everything I learned about Starting/Stopping a Windows Service from a non-Admin user account, if anyone needs to know. Primarily, there are two ways in which to Start / Stop a Windows Service. 1. Directly accessing the service through logon Windows user account. 2. Accessing the service through IIS using Network … Read more
As noted by Mattias Nordqvist in the comments below, you can also select the radio button option “Run whether user is logged on or not”. When saving the task, you will be prompted once for the user password. bambams noted that this wouldn’t grant System permissions to the process, and also seems to hide the … Read more
If the current console is not elevated and the operation you’re trying to do requires elevated privileges then you can start powershell with the Run as Administrator option : PS> Start-Process powershell -Verb runAs Microsoft Docs: Start-Process
You’ll want to modify the manifest that gets embedded in the program. This works on Visual Studio 2008 and higher: Project + Add New Item, select “Application Manifest File”. Change the <requestedExecutionLevel> element to: <requestedExecutionLevel level=”requireAdministrator” uiAccess=”false” /> The user gets the UAC prompt when they start the program. Use wisely; their patience can wear out quickly.