Visual Studio requires elevated permissions in Windows 7

Question

I\'m running Visual Studio 2008 on Windows 7. When I try to attach to a process, VS tells me to restart under different credentials (with elevated permissions).

So I ha

Answer 1

This error occurs because of The current user didn’t have a sufficient privilege to open Visual Studio.

To overcome this issue by right-clicking on visual studio and select run as administrator at every time you intend to open it

Also, you can check the compatibility troubleshooting

• Right Click on Visual Studio > Select Troubleshoot compatibility.
• Select Troubleshoot Program.
• Check The program requires additional permissions.
• Click on Test the program.
• Wait for a moment till the program launch.Click Next.
• Select Yes, save these settings for this program.
• Wait for resolving the issue.
• Make sure the final status is fixed.Click Close.

To find the detail steps for How to apply that check this link

https://blog.devoworx.net/2016/01/06/this-task-requires-the-application-to-have-elevated-permissions/

Hope it helps you