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In Windows XP/2003, if you Shift+Right Click an executable/shortcut you get
the RunAs dialog box; you can get the same dialog if you go to a shortcut's
properties and, on the "Shortcut" tab, click the "Advanced" button and in the
"Advanced Properties" dialog, check the "Run with different credentials" box.
Using the "Run this program with restricted access" checkbox, you can have
an application run in the same account, but with a restricted token, making
the app effectively run as a regular user. Now, I preach to everyone I know
not to use administrative accounts for everyday tasks, but I'm one of the 1%
of the developers writing Windows Services with .NET, which need extra
privileges (plus the test harness which installs/uninstalls the service every
time and so on) and it's more handy to me to run as admin.
I want to run Internet Explorer and several other applications with
restricted access. In order to do that, I configure them as shown above, but
the RunAs dialog pops up every time I launch the app. Is there a way to make
Windows understand that for that shortcut, running with a restricted token is
the default behaviour I want? I checked the console "runas" command and
looked around in Windows Help and found nothing so far.
Thanks!
the RunAs dialog box; you can get the same dialog if you go to a shortcut's
properties and, on the "Shortcut" tab, click the "Advanced" button and in the
"Advanced Properties" dialog, check the "Run with different credentials" box.
Using the "Run this program with restricted access" checkbox, you can have
an application run in the same account, but with a restricted token, making
the app effectively run as a regular user. Now, I preach to everyone I know
not to use administrative accounts for everyday tasks, but I'm one of the 1%
of the developers writing Windows Services with .NET, which need extra
privileges (plus the test harness which installs/uninstalls the service every
time and so on) and it's more handy to me to run as admin.
I want to run Internet Explorer and several other applications with
restricted access. In order to do that, I configure them as shown above, but
the RunAs dialog pops up every time I launch the app. Is there a way to make
Windows understand that for that shortcut, running with a restricted token is
the default behaviour I want? I checked the console "runas" command and
looked around in Windows Help and found nothing so far.
Thanks!