Generic way to allow drag and drop to an elevated process?

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On Windows 7 (and I think also Vista) an elevated process will not by default accept items dragged and dropped onto it. I have a few programs which I have to run elevated, which is nicely accomplished with SuRun. However, these processes won't accept dragging and dropping items on their windows from processes that aren't elevated.

How can I override this default behavior for given processes, based on the name of the process (path to its executable image etc)?


Just to make sure people get what I am up to. I am a developer myself and I know for a fact that it's possible to filter and "unfilter" messages (and here) to an elevated program. So I am literally asking for some solution that provides this canned and doesn't require turning off UAC completely or start the "dragging program" elevated every time, which I don't deem an option.

0xC0000022L

Posted 2013-02-25T20:02:19.040

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Question was closed 2013-02-26T01:41:47.957

@techie007: none of the answers in that alleged duplicate even touches the question I have raised. – 0xC0000022L – 2013-02-25T20:12:25.983

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It's still the same question and, IMO anyway, the accepted answer IS the actual answer (turn off UAC or proxy through another file manager that's running elevated). If you'd like newer/better/different answers to the existing question, perhaps consider placing a bounty on it.

– Ƭᴇcʜιᴇ007 – 2013-02-25T20:15:52.683

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