>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.

Try with a local shortcut, and set that on the shortcut. It may allow you...

Ah never mind, now I see that you did that already. Well, such is microsoft... one day, they may just decide to give us our computers back.