How to make my program run as administrator - Delphi xe5 [duplicate]

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I am trying to write my software so that it has administrator rights. Because it has to create files and be able to delete them, But if it is not started by right clicking on it, and clicking on run as administrator it is blocked from doing so.

Any solution would be great.

I did manage to find the following pages. But cannot make sense of it:

• Run application with admin rights
  
• How to give Administrator Rights to code?
  
• Run Code as a different user (C#)

Update

I'm trying to read files from the program files directory, and write them elsewhere.

Answer 1

It transpires in the comments that you are trying to read from the program files folder rather than write to it. In which case your program does not need elevation and can run as standard user. You do not need to add the UAC requireAdministrator manifest.