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

From: David Candy (david_at_mvps.org)
Date: 06/09/04 

Date: Wed, 9 Jun 2004 19:10:03 +1000

Does notepad itself (c:\windows\notepad or whereever it is) have it on it's right click menu. 

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"Philip Herlihy" <foof8501@herlihy.eu.veil.com> wrote in message news:ca6jg0$nn0$1@hercules.btinternet.com...
> Thanks for this useful information - new to me, especially the Installer
> shortcuts (I recognise behaviour which had previously seemed inexplicable.
> 
> So now I have to figure out why RunAs doesn't work with Notepad on my
> system,by the sound of it!  I've ruled out problems due to environment
> variables in the path - a direct shortcut to Notepad won't cooperate either.
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> "David Candy" <david@mvps.org> wrote in message
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> 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
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> > 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
> > news:eVVxpzZTEHA.3224@TK2MSFTNGP10.phx.gbl...
> > 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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