Windows 8 and 8.1 have been two of the most annoying releases from Microsoft in quite some time.  Makes me long for the days of Windows XP past.  Microsoft is trying to rid their reputation for being an easy target for viruses.  So to do this, even people logged in AS an administrator have limitations when accessing certain components through applications.

Edhy's solution will work, but remember that when you do this you are actually running as a different user within that application that you are within your Windows session.  So you will lose printer mappings, drive mappings, etc.  You can add them back in while logged in as that user, but this is one thing that does get semi- annoying.  It is also good at losing those settings from time to time.

But it WILL resolve most issues regarding security.

Hi Terry,

You need to run VS as an Administrator.  You may also need to modify the DDT application shortcut to also run as Administrator.

I have been using Windows 8.0 and then 8.1 and that is all it required on my system.

Edhy Rijo

Just got a new machine with Win 8.1 and I am using VS2013.