Vista - Run As different user

When using XP, I was able to run different programs (AD, etc) as a Domain
Admin while logged onto the computer as a Domain User. I did this by holding
the shift key down while right clicking on the program and then selecting
"Run as...". At this point, I would type in the Domain Admin's credentials
and be able to do what I needed to do.
How can I do this in Vista? Whenever I click on the "Run as..." it just
runs the program with elevated rights. I am needing to run it with completely
different credentials altogether.
I have tried getting around this by using the Runas command, but it fails
to open AD because it needs elevated privileges (even when running the
command prompt with elevated privileges).
Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance!

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"njohn" <njohn@xxxxxx> wrote in message
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I am not sure what you mean by that, your post was rather vague.

When looking at Enterprise, what would you like me to see? Does Enterprise
have that capability while the other versions do not? Is there a way to get
that capability in the Business version?


"James Matthews" wrote:

njohn wrote:
Hi there,

I just got Vista by virtue of a new machine and was playing around with
UAC. Unfortunately, the runas command provided does not elevate rights
as does the Run as Administrator on the contecxt menu just as you
pointed out.

Anyway, I have compiled up shellas.exe which just calls ShellExecute
API with the runas verb as one of the parameters - this isn't different
than in XP.

So, now I can type shellas somecommand in the Run dialog and not have
to find the exe and right click on it... The command will run with
elevated rights as the user you select in the dialog.

I have gone a step further. In XP, I run as a limited user, but once I
log in, I become an administrator, so that I can optionally run
processes that need admin rights as myself and not another user (e.g.
installs). Upon, logoff I am depricated to a limited user again for the
next time.

I have now dome something similar in Vista, but it works subtley
different and isn't really as necessary any more, but works to keep
myself a limited user until I logon (after explorer desktop starts),
then using shellas I am made an administrator, then can run commands
later with elevated rights as myself and not another user; at logoff, I
am removed from the administrators group.

Toad

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I am glad that you were able to program something around this, but this is
something that should be built in! After all, it is following Microsoft's
guidelines for safe practices in a domain environment. I shouldn't need to
write a program to do something that was not only built into the last several
OS's that were released, but also encouraged by Microsoft. I am holding my
breath to see if SP1 will fix this (in my opinion) integral flaw in Vista.

"Toad" wrote: