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On my personal Win7 machine, my user account is a standard account, and there is also an Administrator account which I obviously control. One app that I have start up with Windows needs admin privileges to work correctly. It's AIDA64 sidebar, in case anyone is curious.
I've searched this site, the web, and the AIDA64 support forums for ideas on how to make it work, with no good results. I've scheduled tasks for it to start up under the admin account, but in that case it never even shows as running for the standard user (although if the standard user launches it manually "as admin" then it works fine). Alternately I can schedule it for the standard user with "highest privileges" which I've seen recommended dozens of times, but that does not work, since it uses only the user's highest accessible privileges, and not the admin's, even if the admin is the one scheduling the task!
The closest thing to a real solution I've seen is to use runas /savedcred
in the scheduled task, but that is a huge security hole that nobody recommends. If that is the only way to do it, I'd rather just make my user account an admin and be done with it.
I know there are a lot of security options that I'm unaware of or have never used. I'm hoping there is some way to accomplish this that I haven't considered yet.