Quote Originally Posted by Nightwalker83 View Post
In my honest opinion running any program using "Run As Administrator" when you have already installed the program as the administrator and are logged in as an admin to the system is a joke.
Well the alternative is for VB6 to jump through hoops and raise elevation prompts whenever it needed to do things requiring changes to system state or cross-context debugging. Even so that would mean changing VB6.exe and Microsoft isn't likely to do that.

The truth is that later Visual Studio versions (.Net, C++, whatever) are also supposed to be run elevated every time for the same reasons. The Express editions are crippled enough that this is seldom a problem for them though.

People just don't read the info Microsoft puts out I guess. Here's an oldie from when Vista came out:

Visual Studio 2005 on Windows Vista Issue List (Admin)

It was not reissued for Windows 7 because (a.) Windows 7 is a minor update and (b.) developers were all supposed to pay attention to the Longhorn developer guidance back in 2006 - 2007. You snooze, you lose.