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Is there any way to run program with administrator privilege but without entering administator password each time I run it? I have some applications that need administrator privilege to run like hardware monitoring or games from popcap.com...and it is so troublesome and annoying to use right-click and select Run as... every time I need to run it. Maybe something that works like sudo on UNIX...root permit the user(s) some privileges to do something (run program for example) and then user only prompted to enter their own password or NOT prompted if there is no password...well you know... Thanks before, and sorry about my bad English...

For Popcap games (demo) it solved by changing the registry permission. But for H/W monitoring I have no idea...

Windows XP: Fresh boot = 16 processes, turning off hardware specific utiliy like hardware monitoring and ATI driver services which is not essential would be only 12 processes left with less than 80000K commit charge on Task Manager. I can get it lower than 70000K by turning off some more services but I can't accept it as it will disable many functionality that I need. Current settings is fully functional most of the time I use it, some administrative program need Server service though, which is turned off by me as it is make my computer vulnerable to security attack from internet. Without taskmgr.exe you know how many it would be...