I would email Valve and ask....although I wouldn't expect much of a response. You could either look up the permissions difference between Power User and oridnary user at the Registry/file permission level or also email Microsoft and ask.

Hi DosFreak,
Hey I made the FreeDos Team today . Yipee! I'm an official Dos geek now . Okay perhaps I was one earlier, but now I'm a legend (in my own mind ). All the same I like the project and it'll look good on my resume. Or make me look like an obessesed antiquated computer nerd, either way I don't think it'll hurt to be on my resume .
-Christian

Quote:I would email Valve and ask....although I wouldn't expect much of a response. You could either look up the permissions difference between Power User and oridnary user at the Registry/file permission level or also email Microsoft and ask.

I think the second suggestion has the most promise, but I would definetly try contacting Valve too. Microsoft probably won't be of much help and besides you only get two free support requests per license. I'd save them for something more important than this (although half-life is majorly popular and in your line of business it may very well be important enough).
Good Luck Either way,
Christian Blackburn

You could use runas in a batch file and runas a power user. Change the icon to look like the valve icon, and hide extension for known filetypes. hopefully they wont notice it is a batch and take a peek at the password.
 
You could also look into a program called "runas pro" it will let you run a program as another user, like power user or admin, but it keeps the password in question encrypted and invisible to the end user.