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Is there a way to run resource monitor (resmon.exe) without administrator privileges?
The user is member of the debug users, power users, performance monitor and performance log groups, however, this does not seem enough, he is still getting no data and an "access denied" message when trying to start logging
As Resource Monitor displays live statistics on network-traffic and open files and tasks of ALL users, it needs access to that Information. This access requires admin access.
So, the answer is: no it's not possible for the Process to not have admin rights.
What you CAN do however, is to set up a (sheduled) task, that the user is allowed to start. that task in turn, could start the res mon. So the user can start the ressource monitor without requireing adminrights, and he also can't do other stuff with the rights (apart from the options resmon.exe gives him, like stopping/starting tasks ...)
Hope this helps you.
Solution proposed by T3rminat0r is not gonna work. Only works for tasks running silently in the background. But original poster required to run an exe with a GUI.
It can be solved, however, using surun with a rule as in this screenshot:
