Detect a process whether running with elevated privileges sample code.

int UserAccountControl::GetProcessTokenElevationType()

{

HANDLE hToken = NULL;

try

{   

 if (!OpenProcessToken(GetCurrentProcess(), TOKEN_QUERY, &hToken))    

                    throw gcnew Win32Exception(GetLastError());   

TOKEN_ELEVATION_TYPE elevationType;             

DWORD dwSize;   

if (!GetTokenInformation(hToken, TokenElevationType, &elevationType, sizeof(elevationType), &dwSize)) 

throw gcnew Win32Exception(GetLastError()); 

 

return elevationType;

}

finally

{   

CloseHandle(hToken);

}

}

 

 

bool UserAccountControl::IsCurrentProcessElevated::get()

{       

 return GetProcessTokenElevationType() == TokenElevationTypeFull;        //elevated

}

 

Ref:codeplex project UAChelper