How to launch a program as as a normal user from a UAC elevated installer

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Published on 2010-03-10T06:41:53Z Indexed on 2010/05/12 14:14 UTC
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I'm writing an NSIS installer and the setup program elevates "as administrator" as needed on Windows 7 / vista. I need to run the installed program at the end of the install and don't want to launch it with the same privileges as the installer.

The regular NSIS exec commands run the child process with the same permissions as the installer.

There is a UAC plugin for NSIS, but the documentation on it isn't great and it seems v. new; I'd prefer not to use that plugin.

Ideally, I'm looking for a small .exe I can include that'll launch the target program without UAC elevation. Does this exist?

Any other suggestions?

Thanks!

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