"RUN AS" question

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Carlos Salazar

Good day all. I have the run as service enabled and I would like to get a
"run as" on the exe of explorer located in the systemroot directory.

I have a shortcut to windows explorer on the desktop. I hold shift and
right click the icon to do run as. When i type out the user account that
has admin rights and click ok button. Windows explorer window does not come
up.

Is it possible to do a run as on explorer.exe hence that it's running and is
shown in task manager.

thank you for your time

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Doesn't work here, either. Have you tried it Karl?

- Tom

Karl Levinson [x y] mvp said:
It should be possible to do this. I do not know why this is not working on
your computer. Are there any other problems on your computer that might be
related to this? Signs of a virus or intrusion perhaps?

http://securityadmin.info/faq.htm#hacked


Carlos Salazar said:
Good day all. I have the run as service enabled and I would like to get a
"run as" on the exe of explorer located in the systemroot directory.

I have a shortcut to windows explorer on the desktop. I hold shift and
right click the icon to do run as. When i type out the user account that
has admin rights and click ok button. Windows explorer window does not come
up.

Is it possible to do a run as on explorer.exe hence that it's running
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and
is
shown in task manager.

thank you for your time
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As per
http://www.microsoft.com/windows2000/en/server/help/default.asp?url=/windows
2000/en/server/help/windows_security_runas.htm what you're trying to do
isn't as cut and dry as you'd probably like, but there is a solution at:

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;225035&Product=win20
00
Running the Windows Explorer Shell in Administrative Security Context
While logged on as a normal user:
1.. Start Task Manager. Right-click the Task bar and select Task Manager.
2.. Click the Processes tab.
3.. Select explorer.exe. Click End Process. Click YES on the warning
pop-up message. The entire desktop will disappear. You will still have any
programs that you started including Task Manager.
4.. Click the Programs tab.
5.. Click New Task.
6.. Type runas /user:machine/domain name\administrator explorer.exe. Click
OK.
7.. A Console window will appear and prompt for the password. Minimize
Task Manager, type the password and press Enter. The desktop will return
including the task bar, shortcuts, Startup folder items, etc.
8.. Perform necessary administrative tasks. For example: clicking Start,
Settings and Control Panel will bring up control panel in administrative
context.
9.. When finished, log off Administrator. A new shell will automatically
start, running in the originating user context.

Tom said:
Doesn't work here, either. Have you tried it Karl?

- Tom

Karl Levinson [x y] mvp said:
It should be possible to do this. I do not know why this is not working on
your computer. Are there any other problems on your computer that might be
related to this? Signs of a virus or intrusion perhaps?

http://securityadmin.info/faq.htm#hacked


Carlos Salazar said:
Good day all. I have the run as service enabled and I would like to
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Good day all. I have the run as service enabled and I would like to
get a "run as" on the exe of explorer located in the systemroot
directory.
Click to expand...

It's still not nice, but more comfortable than the mentioned
alternative. Open the Internet-Explorer with "run as" and login with the
desired context.

Change from Favourites- to Folders-View.
(View - Explorer-Bar - Favourites -> Folders [1].)
So you have a single Explorer with rights, different from the
login-context. Your "desktop" and any additional Instance of (Internet-)
Explorer remain in the logged-in (user) context.

This works for me on Windows 2000 SP4 / IE 6.0 SP1.

Best Regards
Sascha

[1] It's just a rough translation, since I use a german edition.
Im Original "Ansicht - Explorer-Leiste - Favouriten -> Ordner"
 
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