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I have recently upgraded to Windows 8.

I almost exclusively use Win+R and the run dialog to open any program, and as a developer need to open some programs as an administrator.

In Windows 7, the run dialog tells me that This task will be created with administrative privileges.

How can I configure the run dialog to behave like this in Windows 8?

Edit for close as duplicate:
As per my comment, I read the related question (Win+R runs as Administrator in Windows 8) before posting. However, the accepted answer is "Don't use Win+R", which doesn't solve my problem.

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That functionality in Windows 7 is provided by turning UAC off; You can try to do the same in Windows 8 for it, but I do not recommend that.

As an end user that has to constantly deal with software written by terrible developers which breaks with UAC, please make sure you test your stuff with UAC if you don't develop with it enabled!

You can also flag the *.exe as requiring elevated privileges (Properties -> Compatibility). This will cause it to elevate when launched from Win+R. This will require a bit more work to flag each executable, but you don't have to disable UAC, and it gives you much more fine-grained control.

Thanks for pointing out that related question though; as a fellow developer, it'll be nice not having to add all my executables to my %PATH% to quickly launch them.

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