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Impersonate an application and check if the user has admin rights

I have an application that has to run in normal mode with non admin users. Only for certain functionality, it requires admin privileges. I want to impersonate a non admin user with an admin user by asking the creds when a task that requires admin rights are needed. I am not sure how we can achieve this in a .net framework 3.5 Winforms application. Also I am not sure how to handle special considerations related to Vista/Win7 UAC.

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