Windows 10 Run As Different User
For those organisations who follow best practice and give their system administrators separate administrator accounts, this how to guide will be useful.The guide takes you through creating a shortcut that you can run from any user account to run an application as a different user. It saves you having to shift right click run as different user enter user name enter password every time you want to run an application as different user.I use this for Internet Explorer, Windows Explorer and System Center Configuration Manager Console.
Saves a bit of time!In this example I will create a shortcut to run internet explorer as a different user. You can follow this procedure for most applications. Hi Jon - good point but the idea of this tutorial is not to run an application with someone else's user account. Credential sharing is a massive security risk because you can never trace who is doing what on your network if you allow multiple people to use the same account.The tutorial is designed for where organisations have IT users with separate administrator accounts which is best practice. You may then have some applications you only have access to using your administrator account which you need to run from your standard account.I wouldn't recommend this for home users because as you say windows credential manager can be exploited.
But when used within an enterprise network as intended a hacker would have to get through enterprise security - firewalls, HIPS, NIPS etc before being able to exploit credential manager.
Attention please, this method only works on application launch files (EXE) or shortcuts to the application launch files.Second Method:If you are using, Windows 7, or Windows 8 operating system on PC and want to permanently add “Run as different user” option to the right-click context menu then download and install ShellRunas on your PC.Basically, is a command-line utility offered by the Microsoft. It allows you to launch programs under different accounts from the right-click context menu. The only problem with this utility, it’s not accessible if you’re a heavy Explorer user.Once you installed ShellRunas utility on your Windows PC, you will be able to see “ Run as different user” option whenever you make a right-click on any executable file. Step (4): Now from the right side pane:. In Windows 2000: Find “ RunAs” service and right-click on it then select “ Properties” option. In: Find “ Secondary Logon” service and right-click on it then select “ Properties” option.Step (5): On the Properties dialog box, set Startup type to “ Automatic” and click on Start button then OK.Step (6): Now, close the window and Restart the computer.From now, you will be able to see “ Run as different user” option in right-click context menu whenever you will right-click on program icon.
Windows 10 Run As Different User
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You can switch to a different user account in Windows 10 without signing out of your currently logged on account by following the steps given below: Follow steps 1 and 2 from the above section. From the displayed options, click the name of the other user account you want to switch to.