Re: Being logged on as admin and user at the same time (in XP)?

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Date: Sat, 8 Jan 2005 15:12:14 -0700

Quite so Joe. But now go full circle.
Logged in as an admin, use this method to replace the
Explorer instance with one running in a limited account.
In practice, I would find likely either too confusing and
so will likely stay with my trusty cmd prompt <g>

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Roger
"Joe Richards [MVP]" <humorexpress@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> I would be concerned about what else that leverages the explorer process
is now
> running as admin as well. If you do runas (or my preference cpau) on say a
> command prompt, only that command prompt and what you launch from it are
> enhanced. I am not aware of people writing active plugins for the command
prompt
> to go off and fire things up that are bad. If you launch some of the more
> integrated things such as explorer or IE I would be concerned that now any
> plugins now have the enhanced rights as well.
>
>    joe
>
> --
> Joe Richards Microsoft MVP Windows Server Directory Services
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>
>
> Roger Abell wrote:
> > "Herb Martin" <news@LearnQuick.com> wrote in message
> >
> > Interesting Herb, I really did miss your point.
> > While I have used taskmgr before to kill off,
> > and/or respawn Explorer, it had never occurred
> > to me to try this route to get Explorer running in
> > alt security context.
> > I commonly will have a cmd window open in the
> > alt context and use it to launch whatever it is that
> > I next need.  However, never having been logged
> > in as X but having Explorer running as Y, I am now
> > sitting here thinking about its issues and just how it
> > would actually play out.  Guess I have some new
> > experiences ahead :-)

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