Request admin right for app for some operation(no full time admin rights)

Question

I want to run application usually with normal rights but for some operations(Managing file associations for example) request admin rights.

Is it possible?

P.S. I know about manifest and requestedExecutionLevel but this is not a good solution. I want aplication have admin rights for some period of time not always.

Answer 1

That is not possible unless you start a new process.

You can do that with:

var psi = new ProcessStartInfo();
psi.FileName = @"yourExe";
psi.Verb = "runas";

Process.Start(psi);

You could start the same application as you are currently running and pass a switch parameter so the problem knows it only has to execute a specific action.