From the diagram on the article I see that sudo is elevated first, then the target program is launched. Can't you call the target program directly? There must

From the diagram on the article I see that sudo is elevated first, then the target program is launched. Can't you call the target program directly? There must be a way, because explorer.exe is not elevated, and when you right click a program and choose "Run as administrator" you get a pop-up for the target .exe, not for Explorer.