How to detect whether Vista UAC is enabled?

Question

I need my application to behave differently depending on whether Vista UAC is enabled or not. How can my application detect the state of UAC on the user\'s computer?

Answer 1

This post has sample code in C# to test if UAC is on and if the current app has been given elevated rights. You can download the code and interpret as needed. Also linked there is a sample that shows the same in C++

http://www.itwriting.com/blog/198-c-code-to-detect-uac-elevation-on-vista.html

The code in that post does not just read from the registry. If UAC is enabled, chances are you may not have rights to read that from the registry.