Disable Required Account Elevation

I don't trust the Stove client because it requires constant admin access to run. There's realistically no good reason it should be required just to run. It's possible to request elevation when necessary.

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Hi there!

Thanks for your feedback and for sharing your concern about the STOVE client requiring admin access. I completely understand your point of view and I’m really sorry for the inconvenience.

For a more detailed explanation or to raise this as a technical concern, I kindly recommend submitting it directly to our STOVE Customer Center, where the technical team can take a closer look and respond accordingly.

👉 STOVE Customer Center: https://cs.onstove.com/en/service/10

Let me know if there’s anything else on your mind! Wishing you a wonderful day! 😊

It looks like they've made a failed attempt at doing this by including a Stove.exe.manifest file next to the exe. There are two problems with this, however. First, the manifest file is malformed. It only includes the `requestedExecutionLevel` line, while a proper manifest file needs to contain the entire manifest. Second, Windows PCs don't use SideBySide configuration by default, which prevents this broken manifest file from running. On a system where it's enabled, however, this manifest file prevents the client from running at all. This is a proper, functional manifest for this:

<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8' standalone='yes'?>
<assembly xmlns='urn:schemas-microsoft-com:asm.v1' manifestVersion='1.0'>
  <trustInfo xmlns="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:asm.v3">
    <security>
      <requestedPrivileges>
        <requestedExecutionLevel level='asInvoker' uiAccess='false' />
      </requestedPrivileges>
    </security>
  </trustInfo>
</assembly>