justsky ha scritto ...

Please take this in the spirit in which is given, namely someone who respects your work and hopes for your success.

It is in this sprit that I say, you will not survive unless you solve the problem with permissions in Vista. I am no fan of Vista but I recognize that the security constraints in Vista will be the new baseline and a successor to Vista will be at least as restrictive and probably even more so. In the long run nobody will tolerate 1) a requirement to authenticate at each menu start-up and then use nothing outside your launcher, 2) respond to numerous registry change authorizations both at startup and shutdown for most applications, or 3) manually set 'run as administrator' on each x-whatever.exe then authenticate each time.

I hoped this this might be part of the new launcher but alas, no. Since I am not telling you anything you don't already know I hope you have some strategy in your pocket to fix this someday. Perhaps your approach makes it unfixable. I hope not.

lenticular ha scritto ...

The attached file is a tiny thing but works well, I put it in the menu folder then set it as the program and the actual program is in the parameters line. The same line is needed in the icon option in order to get to real program icon.
elevate.exe