What parts of .NET require administrative priviliges to be executed?

Posted by Ruben Steins on Stack Overflow See other posts from Stack Overflow or by Ruben Steins
Published on 2010-04-09T14:12:33Z Indexed on 2010/04/09 14:13 UTC
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Which parts of the framework require a user to be more than a Standard User? The reason I'm asking is because I'm trying to compile a list of possible issues with our existing applications when migrating to Windows 7.

Now, I can think of a few things myself:

  • Writing to Eventlog
  • Writing to Registry Keys outside of Current_User scope
  • Getting an Environment variable
  • etc...

I really would like a more complete list and so far I've not come across a decent resource in which all this stuff is listed.

Note that I'm not looking for ways of elevating the priviliges for the exsiting apps (which can be done by using a manifes), I'm simply idenitifying actions in code that might cause issues.

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