In a Qt application you cannot use the BCM_SETSHIELD message to show the UAC shield icon on a QWidget. This is because Qt does its own painting. The good news is that, it is very simple to access this icon in Qt.
QIcon icon = QApplication::style()->standardIcon(QStyle::SP_VistaShield); pushButton->setIcon(icon); commandLinkButton->setIcon(icon);
The above code will return null icon on systems older then Windows Vista.
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