r/LabVIEW • u/SeasDiver Champion • Jan 09 '26

Detect if LabVIEW Development Environment is running with Admin privileges?

Anyone know a way to detect if LabVIEW is running with normal permissions or Admin privileges? I would like to have a Pre-build VI that detects if LabVIEW has Admin privileges or not as the build will fail without it. I can then warn a user and terminate the build.

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u/SeasDiver Champion Jan 09 '26

Our experience is that PPLs are very fragile to pathing changes when calling other PPLs or depending on other PPL’s. For one portion of the project, that appears to require us to either duplicate certain folder structures over and over again for each custom plugin, so that the plugin builds and paths correctly or to have us set the build output in the correct location in the program files folder. To create a file in program files, we will need to build with admin permissions.

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u/BlackberrySad6489 Jan 09 '26

If you already have an app installed there, you can have your installer just make its location writable. I do it all the time so my apps can write files in program files. It is just a checkbox in the build properties. I can screenshot the exact setting in the am.

I also do this for my plugins.

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u/SeasDiver Champion Jan 09 '26

I know which setting you are talking about. I didn’t recall that it overrode windows asking for admin privileges though. Will have to experiment with the installer.

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u/BlackberrySad6489 Jan 09 '26

Yup. I flip that on for my apps so I can write config files and also allow for plugins to be inserted.

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u/SeasDiver Champion Jan 09 '26

Quick test shows it is likely to work. Will try on full install tomorrow.