Wednesday, June 27, 2007

Cool windows admin..

As always,its always advisable to run windows with limited priviledge i.e. not administrator.
A cool way to do just those things that requires admin right like installation and stuff is to runas the exe.
Note that almost all of windows do-ables have the .exe somewhere in the windows folders. e.g. clipbrd.exe and cmd.exe for the clipboard and command prompt respectively.
A very cool way to gain admin power while still logged in as a normal user is to locate the explore.exe in the windows folder,hold down shift and right click and choose runas. Then you'll put the admin username and password.
It brings out an explorer windows and in that windows you can do whatever it is you wanna do!
Of cause you'll need an admin username and password. It will also put any profile related thing in that particular profile you used in the explorer window; which grou a problem in any way!
See it as your little window in the corridors of power!:-):-)!

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