Always run Visual Studio 2012/2013 or any other application as Administrator in Windows 8

If you are using Windows 8 and are annoyed of doing right click and «Run as administrator» on Visual Studio every time before opening a solution, you can make the setting permanent with the compatibility troubleshooter.

Follow these simple steps:

1. Find the application to run (for Visual Studio, right click on devenv.exe).
2. Click Troubleshoot compatibility.
3. Click Troubleshoot program.
4. Check The program requires additional permissions.
5. Click Next.
6. Click Test the program…: it should launch Visual Studio as Administrator.
7. Click Next.
8. Click Yes, save these settings for this program.
9. Click Close the troubleshooter.

From now on Visual Studio will always run as Administrator. When you no longer need it, you can revert to the default by following the same steps and unchecking «The program requires additional permissions».