While there are quite a few questions on this topic, most of them are very outdated or don't have answers, so I hope it's okay that I create a new one.
I have been running this C# project (Angular front-end with Web API back-end) for a couple of years now and never had this issue until last week or possibly the week before (I was on leave for a few days).
When I debug my project (F5), I get an error:
Unable to start debugging on the web server. Visual Studio has insufficient privileges to debug this process. To debug this process, Visual Studio must be run as an administrator.
- I am running VS as Admin and the site itself runs perfectly when accessed, but my debugging no longer works.
- I tried attaching to the w3p process and got the same error.
- I tried upgrading from VS 2017 to 2019 to see if that helps, but no luck.
- When trying to access the Local Security Policy admin, we got an unspecified error saying that my user does not have rights to open it.
I have been in contact with our IT dept and they want to format my machine, which seems a bit drastic for an access error but their response is that it is an "update we run for windows 10 seems to block users from being admin on their machines".
I would appreciate any assistance because reformatting, as we all know, is a massive task. Thanks in advance for any help offered.