How to tell Windows 7 that an application does not need to run with admin rights? [duplicate]

How to tell Windows 7 that an application does not need to run with admin rights? [duplicate]

I am using an application that was written before Windows Vista/Windows 7. Windows has decided that the application needs to run as an admin (i.e., it has the shield icon). I'm pretty sure the application has nothing in its manifest that indicates that it needs to run with elevated privileges (it was written way before Windows Vista).

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"If the application was written well before Windows Vista / 7, then there's a good chance that it could require admin rights to run. A lot of programs assumed that the person installing would have admin rights, so they just wrote to the sections of the registry and file system the programmer thought best.

I know this from my own personal experience. About a decade ago I was working for a company that sold its software into a big automotive company. All their PCs were locked down.
We had to modify our code so it could be installed by some one running with just ""User"" rights."