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Why does Minecraft require an elevated command prompt to run despite admin permissions already being granted?

For anyone following up, my son worked on this a bit. He determined that neither of our Admin accounts were being used to run Minecraft. Therefore having the Administrators group with Full permissions ...
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Why does Minecraft require an elevated command prompt to run despite admin permissions already being granted?

You have given the administrators rights to the Minecraft folder, but not the logged in user. If you alter the permissions for the folder, and give the logged in user itself read/write access to this ...
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Why does Minecraft require an elevated command prompt to run despite admin permissions already being granted?

Likely, there is a file in another location that is being changed, perhaps in the root C:\ folder, which is verboten to non-admin changes (and should be kept that way). Try running Minecraft as admin, ...
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