Temporarily Login in as Administrator

[Ice Sickle]

under Linux there is a feature where you can login as an administrator
without login out.
Is there a way of doing similar thing under windows. Sometimes when I
install applications a box pops up
asking me if I want to install some program as an administrator but it
doesn't happen all the time so a lot of times I have to log out, log in as
an administrator do the task and than login as a regular user which is very
time consuming.


TIA

 

[Dave Patrick]

Check Windows help for 'runas'

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:
| under Linux there is a feature where you can login as an administrator
| without login out.
| Is there a way of doing similar thing under windows. Sometimes when I
| install applications a box pops up
| asking me if I want to install some program as an administrator but it
| doesn't happen all the time so a lot of times I have to log out, log in as
| an administrator do the task and than login as a regular user which is
very
| time consuming.
|
|
| TIA
|
|

 

[kcvv]

There is a "Runas" command in Win2k which is exactly like sudo command in
*nix.
If you are logged in as a user and want to run a shortcut/ exe file as a
administrator, hold the shift key down and right click on the icon and you
should see a new menu entry called "Run As..." if you click this , windows
will prompt you for a user name / password / domain, where u can fill in
admin credentials. Windows will then run this program and all the threads
this program starts using the admin credentials.

Alternatively, if you right click on any short cut , you will see a check
box call " Run as a different user" check this and click on the short cut
and windows will prompt u for a password.

There is also a command line alternative called "runas" type runas /? for
more options.
note - there is a service called "RunAs Service" that needs to be running
for this to work!

Regards,
Venky.

 

[Ice Sickle]

beautiful . Just what I was looking for.

Thank You