need administrative privileges

[EQAditu]

Just as a friendly warning... if you don't know what UAC is or how to turn it off yourself and what the implications are... you probably shouldn't turn it off. It's supposedly there for your protection.

Not that I've ever tried running a Java applet in Vista/Win7, but can't you make a windows shortcut for javaw.exe to run with admin privileges and have that shortcut point to the applet using the -jar command-line switch in the target?

IE a shortcut with: "C:\Program Files (x86)\Java\jre6\bin\javaw.exe" -jar "C:\PathToApplet\applet.jar"
Then you right click that shortcut and run as admin, etc. Assuming we're dealing with a JAR file... I've never used what's being talked about so I can only guess.