Run with administrative permission issue

Question

I am using Windows Vista and I find something strange,

1. I programatically invoke IE to open IE to access some local html page, the current user belongs to a

Answer 1

Even when the user is in the Administators group, they won't be able to undertake privileged operations without an application requesting elevation via a UAC prompt.

Hence the availability of the right-click, "run as administrator" context menu item.

Here is some documentation on UAC from Microsoft. It contains the following:

After an administrator logs on, the full administrator access token is not invoked until the user attempts to perform an administrative task.

An administrative task is defined as a task that requires elevation (indicated by a Vista "shield" over the icon for the application).

However, I am not sure how you might programatically invoke Internet Explorer "pre"-elevated, nor if this is the proper solution to your problem.