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I have a related question for you... my kids like Marvel Rivals, but I also use Microsoft family tools to limit their screen time so they don't have Admin accounts. However, the Marvel Rivals anti-cheat makes me enter my password every time they launch. Is there any way for me to create a shortcut or something so Rivals will launch without my password?

I'm not a Windows guy and trying to figure this out has been extremely frustrating...

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You can make a on-demand scheduled task that runs Marvel Rivals as admin then create a shortcut that invokes the task.

Full instructions https://chatgpt.com/share/67a13960-c1b4-8002-a699-7b547c759c...

I just had to fix this for my kid over the weekend. https://steamcommunity.com/app/2767030/discussions/0/5962604... was very helpful:

You can also skip the UAC prompt without editing the registry, by adding the following to the game's launch options in Steam:

cmd /min /C "set __COMPAT_LAYER=RUNASINVOKER && start "" %command%"

Wow... thank you so much. I actually couldn't get that way to work, but adding RunAsInvoker in the registry worked for us. I can't believe all it took was one registry entry.

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