Hi Tore.

>I am building a new program launcher, and this program needs to copy some files to the program directory if they are missing or newer. Now I detect whether missing or newer files exist, and if necessary ask the user to rerun the program as administrator. This is not very user friendly, can anyone tell me how to automate this? I realize that they will get a warning, and I can live with that.

Move the code copying files to a different EXE, then launch that EXE as administrator. See http://doughennig.blogspot.ca/2007/04/elevating-tasks-in-vista.html for code about how to do that.

Doug