Quote Originally Posted by mherger View Post
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How does that solve the issue that Windows 7 wouldn't ask for elevated
permissions? What you suggest behaves exactly the same on my machine as
what we already had before: if the user isn't part of the administrator's
group, the execution fails.

99% of the Windows 7 user base are Administrator users running under UAC. That is the Windows default.
My suggestion will make the problem resolved for 99% of users. The remaining 1% of users that are not running as administrator will need to resort to your solution.