Add elevation request for admin rights. Possible?

[dmm9]

Hi,

Some of my users are experiencing issues with my theia-based IDE. To give some background, my IDE includes a java backend and communicates with the theia backend via HTTP.

After months of erratic debugging, I have finally narrowed down the errors to the following conditions:

• Microsoft Defender antivirus & IDE installed "for the current user" --> No error
• Microsoft Defender antivirus & IDE installed "for all users" --> Errors appear on the Java backend (!)
• Other antivirus (Avast, Norton) --> No error

I cannot influence which anti-virus my users have. I could point them to (re-)install just for the current user. Or I could point them to execute as administrator, but it can be annoying.

Is there either:

• A way to request admin rights right at startup when installed for all users?
• A way to restrict installation only for current user with electron-buider.yml (i.e. without having to develop custom NSIS scripts)?
• Any other way to solve this?

I appreciate any idea. Thanks!