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Asked: 2026-06-10T20:56:20+00:00

I am developing a C# application that needs to detect whether the user is

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I am developing a C# application that needs to detect whether the user is running as elevated administrator. I tried the solution suggested by Steven.

I checked the solution on 5 machines and it works fine on 4 of them.

There is one machine that never show the UAC notification message, even though I set the User Account Control to Always notify me.

When checking the code on that machine, even if I choose run as administrator, it doesn’t work and the method IsProcessElevated returns false.

Is something wrong with that specific machine?

Is there a way to determine whether a user is elevated or not, on that kind of platform?

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  1. Editorial Team

    After a research I found out that from Windows 7 and on in order to determine whether a user is an elevated admin or not you just need to check the following:

    WindowsIdentity identity = WindowsIdentity.GetCurrent();
WindowsPrincipal principal = new WindowsPrincipal(identity);
return principal.IsInRole (WindowsBuiltInRole.Administrator);

    (The rest of the code that checks the Token can be used in case this option fails)
    I tested the code on some of the machines and it works ok.

    my application runs only on win7 and above so this solution is good enough for me.

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