Run AIR application with admin privileges

Well, there are a few ways to achieve this, but each of them is a bit hacky.

First, you should ask yourself if you really need your app to run as Administrator. Maybe if you describe what your app does with the Windows files, someone can help you with finding other solutions. Maybe what you're trying to do can be achieved using embedded files installed in applicationStorageDir or documentsDir.

If you really need the Administrator privileges you can do one of the followings:

• Use an Installer Maker software (like Inno Setup or NSIS, but there are plenty out there) and configure the installed files to run as administrator (Creating an installer is always a good approach when you're distributing software to desktop computers)
• You can also create a shortcut file right next to your executable and set it to run as Administrator, and include this shortcut file in your application installer, but in this case, you have to make sure the app is always installed in the same directory, and users can't change it
• You can also try using a launcher.exe for your app, which is created either in a desktop IDE (like Visual Studio, should be pretty easy to create a program like this with a few lines of code) or any other software that acts as a "launcher app for other apps", requires admin privileges and its sole purpose is only to launch your app. Package it with your app installer, set it as the default app, and I think you're good to go.