Re: XP RunAs only available for some shortcuts...

From: David Candy (david_at_mvps.org)
Date: 06/08/04 

Date: Wed, 9 Jun 2004 08:01:05 +1000

My Docs won't work. It's a namespace AND it ends up using explorer. However notepad and Process Explorer should work.

There is no reference. For a programmer there is no difference between the lnk files. But there are 5 to my knowledge

.url Internet Shortcuts - a text file with a URL in it

.pif Shortcut for MSDOS Programs

.lnk Normal shortcuts - notepad et al

.lnk Folder Shortcuts (introduced with Win2000/WinME) allows the shortcut to act as a real folder in some places (Start Menu). To get a normal shortcut to a folder you have to create a shortcut to a folder shortcut - you can then delete the folder shortcut. Drag History or TIF (after you empty it - it takes a long time to show a menu with tens of thousands of items)

.lnk Windows Installer shortcuts - Links to windows installer that checks, repaires, and starts the application. This does not support drag and drop, most properties can't be edited. Only installation programs make these types.

.lnk files are treated as whatever by their contents. Only Folder Shortcut don't have a RunAs (probably because it needs explorer to be useful, al la NSEs). 

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"Philip Herlihy" <foof8501@herlihy.eu.veil.com> wrote in message news:OrExp9ZTEHA.3616@TK2MSFTNGP11.phx.gbl...
> Thanks - that makes sense.  Do you have any references I could look up on
> types of Shortcut?
> 
> Runas on the command line has always worked ok for me, but with the
> Shift-Right-Click version,
> 
> these work:
> Word
> Excel
> AutoRoute
> Corel Painter
> Adobe Acrobat (!)
> 
> .. and these don't
> Photoshop
> My Documents ("Namespace"?)
> Notepad (!)
> Process Explorer (Sysinternals)
> Opera
> RealOne player
> 
> I think that's pretty weird already...
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> "David Candy" <david@mvps.org> wrote in message
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> You can't use RunAs for explorer because Explorer is already running. You
> need to ask Adobe about their products (like what type of shortcut is it -
> there is more than one type). RunAs works on all but Namespace Objects.
> 
> You can kill explorer then use runas on it. You should use the runas command
> (runas /?) as you probably need to use options to make it usefull (eg I'm
> logged in as an admin but running explorer as Limited using current
> environment, I can't do much for security reasons).
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> "Philip Herlihy" <foof8501@herlihy.eu.veil.com> wrote in message
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> > You're supposed to be able to fire off a program as another user (usually
> an
> > Administrator) in XP by right-clicking a shortcut with SHIFT down and
> > picking "RunAs..".  On my system (XP Pro) this is only available for some
> > programs and not others.  Corel Painter - yes.  Photoshop - no.  Any ideas
> > why this might be so?  What I'd really like is to be able to run a Windows
> > Explorer with an administrative account, but I haven't found a way to do
> > that yet!
> >
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