As the title says, I am wondering if there is a way to start my program in administrative mode using a function, code, command of some sort included in it. The reason is, my program cannot delete a file without having to be run as an administrator. and yes a simple way of solving this would be to edit the properties of the exe so that it uses UAC to start as admin but I have to distribute the source code for my reviewers to compile it and wanted to save them the trouble.

Any comments,solutions etc are appreciated, thanks.

CodePudding user response：

You could use PowerShell for this:

PowerShell Start yourprogram.exe -Verb Runas

This should be portable enough to run on most Windows systems.