>A reasonable suggestion, however, the exe is on a server, and w7 grays out the 'run as administrator' option in the lnk, and setting that on the exe on the server makes no difference...
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>Thanks, though.

Exe on the server is not an optimal solution, I advice you to keep it local. Instead you use a "loader" program, which typically does minimum two things:
1. Compares the exe on the server to the local one, and copies it to the local machine if the server version is newer.
2. Start the local exe.