Re: How to implement Fast User Switing in a customized shell?
- From: "KM" <konstmor@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 20 Mar 2007 12:44:32 -0700
Sascha,
Just to mention. You can have different shells working for different users.
All you have to do is to properly set up the following keys:
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon],"Shell"
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon],"Shell"
Note that the current user branch is where you specify the different user shell.
Here is an article for you from Sean to get started: http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms838576.aspx
There are some limitations if you run the explorer.exe not as a shell (e.g., via RunAs command). Initially it may not look like the
full Desktop shell. Just FYI.
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Regards,
KM
"Mike Warren" wrote:
Sascha wrote:
Hello community!
I'm currently migrating the software my company is working on to
windows XPe. We've decided to replace the explorer shell with our
application. Within the application customers should only see the
application and no Windows XP, but our service staff should be able
to switch to a dedicated service user account whose shell is the
explorer shell.
I don't know the answer to your question but we just run explorer.exe
for service access using a secret key sequence from within our shell
program.
Explorer.exe is not even included in the image. A USB thumb drive or CD
containing it is needed.
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-Mike
Hello Mike,
thank you very much for your quick answer! Starting explorer.exe would be a
way to realize this task, but the application the customer is working with
should run with restricted user rights, while our service staff should have
full access (administrator priviledges) to the system.
If there's no way to trigger Fast User Switching, I will do as you proposed.
Fast User Switching seems to be the right way to work with different user
accounts.
Hmmm, by the way ... what would happen, if I run the explorer.exe with the
"Run as..." function? Will the complete desktop, windows explorer windows and
so on run under the specified user's priviledges?
Thank you for your answers :-)
.
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