Does full trust mean the same as Run As Administrator
administrator, full-trust, privileges
Solution
No. Full-trust is a .NET term used to indicate that it's not running in a reduced-priviledge .NET sandbox. In .NET prior to 3.5 SP1, this included running from a network share (in the default configuration). It also includes running as a ClickOnce application that has not requested additional permissions, or in some other browser-based sandbox.
Full-trust means it can do anything the user it is running as can do, not that is running as an administrator.
Problem
Does full trust mean the same as Run As Administrator? I have read things stating that "for this to work, the application must be a full-trust application." Is that the same as you must have administrator privileges to run the application? If not, what's the difference? How can you tell if an app is "full-trust"? I am told that "Administrator or not, .Net apps won't do certain things if they aren't running from a 'trusted' location." What is a "trusted location"? If you run an app from a "trusted location", can you do things that "require full-trust" without being an administrator?