PerfView should run the debugging application as a normal user and not as an elevated (admin) user about perfview HOT 9 OPEN

I am assuming everyone understands the obvious work-around of simply using the 'Collect' rather than the 'Run' command. If you start PerfView's collection you can then launch your app however you wish, (and in particular non-elevated). This should not block investigations, and thus is a convenience/security feature.

This feature is a bit more complex because you probably want to expose the ability to run the app elevated as well as non-elevated (non-elevated can be the default).

I am generally supportive of this feature. If anyone in the community wishes to tackle it I can provide advice about the details necessary to get it done.

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Hey @vancem,
What about if we add a checkbox next to the Command text box (RunCommandDialog.xml) and if is checked then the process is started elevated.

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@ppozeti - Sure having a checkbox to choose is reasonable. The solution is straightfoward, the issue is the priority. Because it has such a simple work-around it has low priority. If anyone wants to take a crack at it by all means do so.

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Well, can I do this? I'm just starting at contributing to open source projects and I thought that would be a good start. Could you assign this to me?

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GitHub won't let me actually set the assigned to field to you, but this note indicate that others should not work on it without interacting here.

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@ppozeti is this something that you're still interested in working on?

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@ppozeti is this something that you're still interested in working on?

Sure!

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Excellent. Then I'll keep this issue around. Do post if you have any questions or run into issues. Thanks.

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Paulo, I'm assuming that you will address this issue for Windows only, right?

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