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Posted: **Mon Dec 31, 2018 9:14 am**

Starting to feel the pain of Win 10 lately... I avoided it as long as possible but finally relented... and now I'm having issues.

As you can see from the screenshot below, I am logged in to what is apparently an administrator account. (I also have a limited account that I normally log into). But, despite what you see below, I still have to accept UAC prompts to run RegEdit and other such tools, and the code below returns 0 for all three admin tests.

What the heck is going on? How can my app know if it's running with admin rights?

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Procedure IsAdmin()
  a=OpenSCManager_(0,0,#SC_MANAGER_ALL_ACCESS)
  If a : CloseServiceHandle_(a) : EndIf
  ProcedureReturn a
EndProcedure

Debug IsAdmin() ; Returns 0
Debug IsUserAdmin_() ; Returns 0
Debug IsUserAnAdmin_() ; Returns 0

Posted: **Mon Dec 31, 2018 11:19 am**

Each program starts with user rights. Even if you are logged in as admin. This is the normal behavior of windows.

Posted: **Mon Dec 31, 2018 11:36 am**

Must be something new with Win 10 (or 8?), because Win 7 didn't do this. Oh well. I miss 7 already.

Posted: **Mon Dec 31, 2018 2:45 pm**

Dude wrote:Must be something new with Win 10 (or 8?), because Win 7 didn't do this. Oh well. I miss 7 already.

No, it's the same in Win7. Only if you loged in as the 'real' Administrator (not an useraccount with administrator access rights) you will get a result as following:

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Am I admin on Win 10 or not?

Am I admin on Win 10 or not?

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