I recently discovered that even while logged into my personal laptop as an administrator, Visual Studio does not run in administrator mode and you need to explicitly use Run As Administrator.
Is there a way to make it run as an administrator by default, other than creating a shortcut, etc.?
Best Answer
Copied and pasted from here, the Using Advanced Properties section. This will allow you to always have the program run as an administrator when you open it.
Windows 7:
NOTE: If you are doing this is while logged in as standard user instead of an administrator, then you will need to provide the administrator's password before the program will run as administrator.
Update: (2015-07-05)
Windows 8, 8.1 and 10
In Windows 8, you have to right-click devenv.exe and select "Troubleshoot compatibility".
Select "Troubleshoot program"
Check "The program requires additional permissions" click "Next", click "Test the program..."
Wait for the program to launch
Click "Next"
Select "Yes, save these settings for this program"
Click "Close"
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