"Run as" in Windows XP - applying it permanently to a shortcut

A customer has asked me how to install a certain game which requires admin
privilege both to install and to run it.

The intention is that the game will normally be run as a non-admin user.

Installation is easy: just log on as an admin user to install, then logon as
the non-admin user and create a shortcut to the exe file.

But execution is a problem. "Run as" works fine - logged on as the non-admin
user, you right-click on the icon and Run As / The Following User (fill in
username and password of an admin user).

But is there a way to configure the shortcut so the app always runs as the
admin user? It seems that every time the app is run, it is always necessary
to get someone to supply the admin password, whereas what the customer wants
is for an administrator to supply these details once and have them used
forever after.

I can't see anything on Microsoft's support site: there is plenty of
information about how to use Run As, but nothing about configuring the
shortcut to make the change permanent.

The manufacturer of the game doesn't know the answer, though it much be a
very common scenario: a PC with a parents' administrative account and a
series of non-admin accounts for the children who want to run the game.


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