I'm still peeved that I need to run Visual Studio 2005 as an Administrator on Vista. Even more annoying is the UAC dialog that I need to see every time I launch it.

One simple shortcut for making it easier to run it as an administrator every time you launch it (so you can stop with the "right-click", "Run as Administrator" option) is to force Windows to launch it always as an Administrative application. It doesn't make the UAC dialog go away, but at least I'm less likely to launch it incorrectly this way (and maybe you'll be too!).

Here's how – it's very simple:

Find the option in your start menu either via search or navigation:

Right click and select Properties:

Click the "Advanced…" button to see the Advanced Properties window:

Then check the "Run as administrator" option.

Of course, this same technique works for any application that you must run as an Administrative user.