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Is there a way to detect what prevents an app from running in a non-elevated state? When we run our application with elevated permissions it operates without any problems. Running in a non-elevated state prevents the application from starting.
Are there any tricks to detecting what might be preventing the app from running non-elevated?
Our application does not write data to a protected folder, i.e. program files.
You can view the exceptions it threw in Windows Event Viewer (not the most efficient method) or wrap the whole program with an exception handler that displays or logs the exception info (a better approach if you have the luxury of being able to edit and build the project). Once you have the exception it shouldn’t be too much trouble finding the operations where you have insufficient privileges.