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Elevated Privileges Application Launcher

At a number of times we have had requests to be able to run applications as a normal user even though the application is designed to run as an administrator. This could be handled manually by setting the privileges on each computer for certain paths and registry keys and any other resources the application requires. This easily gets out of hand and there is a much better solution, spelled EPAL.

Sure, it requires some configuration and tweaking, but when set up it works like a charm and is a great tool to compensate for poorly written Windows applications requiring administrative privileges.
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