Help with Windows admin rights

[N_Adamson]

Writing my first program!
I've been bashing my head against the wall for a few days and cannot find consistent information.
I've been following this post to embed the manifest into the my app. This doesn't seem to work. But here is what I have.

.pro file
*QT += core gui
widgets

greaterThan(QT_MAJOR_VERSION, 4): QT += widgets

TARGET = FirewallConfig
TEMPLATE = app

SOURCES += main.cpp
firewallconfig.cpp

HEADERS += firewallconfig.h

FORMS += firewallconfig.ui

RC_FILE = firewallconfig.rc

win32 {
WINSDK_DIR = C:/Program Files (x86)/Microsoft SDKs/Windows/v7.1A
WIN_PWD = $$replace(PWD, /, \)
OUT_PWD_WIN = $$replace(OUT_PWD, /, \)
QMAKE_POST_LINK = "$$WINSDK_DIR/bin/x64/mt.exe -manifest $$quote($$WIN_PWD\$$basename(TARGET).manifest) -outputresource:$$quote($$OUT_PWD_WIN\${DESTDIR_TARGET};1)"
}

.exe.manifest
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="yes"?>
<assembly xmlns="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:asm.v1" manifestVersion="1.0">
<assemblyIdentity type="" name="FirewallConfig" version="0.0.0.1" processorArchitecture="X86" type=""/>
<trustInfo xmlns="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:asm.v3">
<security>
<requestedPrivileges>
<requestedExecutionLevel level="requireAdministrator"/>
</requestedPrivileges>
</security>
</trustInfo>
</assembly>

.rc file
VS_VERSION_INFO VERSIONINFO
FILEVERSION VER_FILEVERSION
PRODUCTVERSION VER_PRODUCTVERSION
BEGIN
BLOCK "StringFileInfo"
BEGIN
BLOCK "040904E4"
BEGIN
VALUE "CompanyName", "Siemens"
VALUE "FileDescription", "Firewall Config"
VALUE "FileVersion", "0,0,0,1"
VALUE "InternalName", "Firewallconfig"
VALUE "LegalCopyright", "Copyright © 2015 Siemens"
VALUE "OriginalFilename", "firewallconfig.exe"
VALUE "ProductName", "FirewallConfig"
VALUE "ProductVersion", "0,0,0,1"
END
END

BLOCK "VarFileInfo"
BEGIN
VALUE "Translation", 0x0409, 0x04B0
END
END

Please help! and thank you!

[N_Adamson]

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