Vilius Mockûnas wrote:
Quote:
> Hello,
>
> I have trouble trying to run explorer.exe as another user in windows Vista
> os.
> In XP things worked like that -
> 1. check "Launch folder windows in a separate process" check box in folder
> options for the target account.
> 2. use runas.exe to launch explorer.exe as another user.
>
> I can launch other applications as another user with no problems in Vista
> (like notepad.exe) using runas.exe or "run as administrator" context menu
> command. I'm interested only to launch explorer.exe in different user
> context - so it doesn't matter to me if users are regular or
> administrators, it doesn't matter if UAC is on or off. (I tried with UAC
> off but it should be the same result with UAC on). So:
> 1. I selected "Launch folder windows in a separate process" for user
> administrator.
> 2. I logged on interactively using user1.
> 3. I launched explorer.exe using "runas explorer.exe /u:administrator" -
> explorer.exe started - but I checked context - and it was user1 not
> administrator !!!
> (I got the same result using "run as administrator" context menu command)
>
> What am I doing wrong ? - It should be possible to launch explorer.exe as
> another user.
You can't normally elevate explorer.exe. This is by design for security
purposes. Here are two very good articles about this by Aaron Margosis:
http://blogs.msdn.com/aaron_margosis...-is-vista.aspx http://blogs.msdn.com/aaron_margosis...ows-vista.aspx
Malke
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