Question: Is there anywhere to run a command from the Run box "AS" an Administrator or other user?.
Boris writes to us:
Is there any way for me to go to a users workstation with normal access privileges and hit the command prompt (CMD) and run an administrative console or anything like a batch file. I can not figure it out. do you know how?
Yup as a good Admin I ran into this one almost immediately upon running vista on the desktop. Because as we all know you should never stay logged in as a user with admin rights – unless you have to. But without further adu here it is from the howToGeek
If you are a command line junkie like me, and have been testing out Windows Vista… one of the first things you’ll notice is that there is no way to run a command from the run box in “Administrator” mode. Until now.
To try this out, go to the run box and type in something (cmd, for example)
Now instead of hitting the Enter key, use Ctrl+Shift + Enter. You will be prompted with the obnoxious User Account Control dialog… but it will then open up a command prompt in Administrator mode.
Hint: You can use Alt + C to quickly close the User Account Control dialog.
Thanks Geek your our kind of guy!
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about 4 years ago
I just stumbled on this one… Does the command line “runas” command not work in vista? In windows XP you can type the following to run cmd (and anything else):
runas /user:%username% %command% i.e.
runas /user:jdoe cmd
A command prompt will pop up asking for the password, then voilla, you are running your app (in this case the command prompt) as Admin.