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Elevate a running program to administrator (Windows 7)

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Unfortunately, no. A running process cannot be elevated to administrator privileges. I'm looking for a more authoritative source, but for now I have found:

  1. "Programs can't be elevated once they've already been launched..."

  2. "Code can only be elevated at process level when startup, which means that a running process cannot be elevated."