administrator permission are recommended for running visual studio sp1 on windows 7 rc

Question

I get this annoying message everytime I try to run visual studio 2005(even using "Run as Administrator" gives same message). I have VS 2005 Professional with all the latest service packs installed including vs2005 SP1 and vs 2005 update for Vista.

I am part of the administrators group on my machine. Still I have this problem.

Some read on the web suggests that Running program in Compatibility mode solves the problem. Others also recommend turning off the message forever.

Well my question is how do I turn off this warning which seems to bother me even if I am part of administrators group. Does Visual Studio does not run in administrator mode even when I am an administrator or even I use "Run as adminsitrator".

Also it would be greate if someone out there can highlight what features of Visual Studio wont be available if Visual Studio is launched as a normal user (User is not an administrator/part of the administrator group) on Windows 7.

Answer 1

Try this from the following article: http://richnewman.wordpress.com/2009/06/06/running-visual-studio-as-an-administrator-under-windows-vista/

Right-click a shortcut to Visual Studio, select the Compatibility tab, and check the ‘Run this program as an administrator’ checkbox at the bottom.

Works for me.

yes, this could remove this warnning message, but vs2005 will output a fatal error c1074 : IDB is not illeagl for PDB ... MS said that when build with XP mode compatibility, vs will generated this error.