My understanding is that if you're logged in as "administrator", then all programs that you launch will automatically run with adminsitrator privileges (aka "elevated"), and you will not see any prompt or UAC-related failures. If you're logged in as any other user, however, even if it's a user with administrator-level access to your computer, then your programs will not run in elevated mode unless you right-click on the shortcut and select "Run as administrator" or unless the program has an application manifest embedded that instructs it to run as administrator. But doing either of those results in you seeing the UAC prompt as soon as you launch the program. Some programs needs to do this, since they need to perform some action that UAC would typically not allow a non-elevated program to perform (installers are a typical example, since they must copy files to restricted locations and they need to modify the registry).
If I were you, I would first try to establish exactly what action in your program causes the prompt to appear. I'm a bit surprised that the prompt pops up during execution. Normally, a UAC-restricted action, when invoked from a non-elevated program, simply fails rather than display the prompt. Have you been able to identify the specific line of code that results in the prompt?
If it turns out that you can't rewrite your code to be more UAC-friendly, then the next best thing is to require that the program always run in elevated mode. You typically do this by adding a manifest that defines requestedExecutionLevel with level='requireAdministrator'. (in CVI, you can attach a manifest by checking Build>>Target Settings>>Embed manifest file). This should still result in a prompt, but at launch time instead. Also, an important restriction is in order to debug an elevated program, the CVI ADE must itself be run elevated.
Finally, while you as an administrator-level uses can disable UAC at the OS level, globally, there is really nothing you can do as a programmer to enable any individual non-elevated program to circumvent UAC enforcement. This would be a major security gap if it were allowed.
Luis
