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Isn't a common purpose of drivers to provide a secure interface between system resources, such as storage, audio and video (which are accessed in ring 0) and user mode (ring 3) applications? Isn't it the driver's responsibility to restrict the application's access to the appropriate resources...

Why does HWinfo need admin privileges? Isn't the purpose of installing a driver to allow the driver (running with higher privileges) to provide the data to an interactive application, regardless of the interactive application's privilege level?

Indeed, I also have problems with the solution suggested in post #6 above: Despite the argument "savecred", a password prompt is displayed each time the task is run. When the task runs, no UI is displayed (neither window nor systray icon). The task shows "completed" after less than a minute and...