Run Visual Studio As Admin, Without The As Administrator Prompt

I run visual studio as admin just by clicking the icon in the task bar:

If you would like to do this same thing so that it does not prompt you to “run as admin”, and so that you don’t need to right-click and select “Run as administrator”, you can set up a windows task do this using the following steps:

Open Task Scheduler (click start and begin typing:  Task Scheduler).

• Select “Create Task”.
• On the General Tab, give the task a name such as “VS as Admin”.
• Click on the “Run with highest privileges” checkbox to select it.

On the Actions tab:

• Create a new Action.
• Action = “Start a Program”.
• Program/script = “C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 14.0\Common7\IDE\devenv.exe”.
  • Note: 14.0 references Visual Studio 2015, use 12.0 for VS 2013
• Click OK to save the task.

Right click on your desktop and select New, shortcut.

• Set the value to
  • C:\Windows\System32\schtasks.exe /run /TN “VS as Admin”
    • Replace “VS as Admin” with the name of the task you created above
• Click Next and enter a name for the shortcut, then click Finish.

Right click on your shortcut and select Pin to Taskbar.  It should be ready to use!

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