VS 2010: Is there a workaround for the administrator requirement?

Question

Aside from running as a administrator, is there any workaround for this requirement?

xxx.vbproj : error : The Web Application Project XXX is configured to use IIS. To access local IIS Web sites, you must install the following IIS components:

In addition, you must run Visual Studio in the context of an administrator account.

Answer 1

You can active Administrator account and use that account you never get this issue. you can find this post which also works in windws7.

http://knowledgebaseworld.blogspot.com/2009/05/how-to-login-as-administrator-in.html

imran

Answer 2

If you do not want to run as an administrator, then host using the Developer Web Server (Cassini) rather than IIS.

Answer 3

One option - though not recommended by Microsoft - is to turn off User Account Control (UAC):

Disable User Account Control (UAC) in Windows 7