Determine in Windows if the application is running with elevated privileges

Asked Jun 29 '18 at 00:47

Active Jun 29 '18 at 01:14

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This has been solved! This was accomplished with the following code:

#include <iostream>
#include <Shlobj.h>

int main()
{
    if (!IsUserAnAdmin)
       {
           // Do stuff
       }

    if (IsUserAnAdmin)
       {
           // Do stuff
       }

Thank you to everyone who commented on the post.

I'm in a bit of a rut with the C++ application I'm developing.

My application requires elevated privileges to function properly, and I'd like to be able to determine if such privileges are present upon runtime. How would I go about doing this? I would like to check immediately after the program is run, and throw an error or proceed with execution (of course)

Thank you for taking the time to respond.

edited Jun 29 '18 at 01:14

asked Jun 29 '18 at 00:47

Koi

Which platform? – Retired Ninja Jun 29 '18 at 00:50
@RetiredNinja Win32. – Koi Jun 29 '18 at 00:50
The right way to do this is to add a manifest that says you need administrative privileges and let Windows handle it for you. – Retired Ninja Jun 29 '18 at 00:53

Determine in Windows if the application is running with elevated privileges

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