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Originally Posted by LowlyOP
I have always thought "run as admin" to be like "give me full control" (placebo effect seeing that badge on my icons), even tho nothing outside of system-related stuff showed any real benefit.
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Ah, makes sense and it can be confusing sometimes.
You have as many rights if you are in the administrators group (which you are I'm sure). If you need to do something that needs elevated rights the OS will ask you to click OK.
Actually, thinking about this, I'd have to go back and check, but reaper may not be running as the actual admin account, but rather gives Reaper an elevated admin token per your request, so that separation between your normal account and this elevated instance still exists. Since Windows Explorer (explorer.exe) is running as your non-elevated account, and reaper with the elevated token, the OS won't let drag and drop move the file across that barrier. It would be insecure as that would allow something like malware to also cross that barrier and it would then have full rights to your machine.
Another point for all:
I trust reaper but I can't say I trust the myriad of plugins available; if they load in reaper, and reaper is running as admin, they also have those rights.