Feature: Display "shield overall" indicating elevation is required

[ADeltaX]

Windows Explorer displays an overlayed tiny shield icon for executables that requires an elevation.

Describe the solution
The following function will let you know if an elevation is required for a given executable file path.

[DllImport("shell32.dll", EntryPoint = "#865", CharSet = CharSet.Unicode, SetLastError = true)]
[return: MarshalAs(UnmanagedType.Bool)] private static extern bool IsElevationRequired([MarshalAs(UnmanagedType.LPWStr)] string pszPath);

Usage:

var isElevationRequired = IsElevationRequired(@"C:\Windows\regedit.exe");

@yaichenbaum

[yaira2]

@ADeltaX would you like to work on this issue?

[ELowry]

Also, design-wise, it could be more interesting to have the shield be at the start of the file name instead of in the icon.

The main reason I suggest this is that in some cases, icons can be designed with slight variations (for slightly different file types for example), which can be covered up by this sort of design. On the other hand, the file name can be easily shifted left to make space for an icon without any loss of information.

There may be some other interesting options, like having some sort of border/overlay around a file name, or a text color change maybe?

[QuaintMako]

Do we want the colored shield like here (as Windows Explorer) :

Or do we want the glyph style shield like so :

[yaira2]

I like the colored one

[QuaintMako]

I like the colored one

I'll look into how to get it to work then! Thanks.