I want my service to run unelevated, but as a user who happens to be an Administrator (Windows / UAC)?

Interesting question. I just looked up some information and cannot seem to find an answer for your question as asked initially, but I have a few alternative suggestions.

In the end I implemented a work-around using Windows scheduled tasks, similar to what is described above, but instead of implementing my own 'start/stop' interface, I wrote a Windows service that manages my program, run as a task. When the service starts, it starts a task, and when the service is asked to stop, is stops the task. So instead of using a socket for the parent to query if the child is running, I use schtasks /Query and parse the output.

To make the task exit if the parent exits, I used an RMI keepalive method on my app that was already there.

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