{"id":1338,"date":"2014-10-02T10:01:28","date_gmt":"2014-10-02T09:01:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stevenwhiting.com\/blog\/?p=1338"},"modified":"2016-03-30T16:06:06","modified_gmt":"2016-03-30T15:06:06","slug":"explorer-separate-windows-7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevenwhiting.com\/blog\/?p=1338","title":{"rendered":"Run “Explorer” as another user – Windows 7"},"content":{"rendered":"

Running explorer.exe as a user different from the one that is already logged in using “runas” command is disabled in Windows 7. But there is a workaround for this:<\/p>\n

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  1. Start -> Run -> regedit<\/li>\n
  2. Navigate to the registry key: HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\\AppID{CDCBCFCA-3CDC-436f-A4E2-0E02075250C2}<\/li>\n
  3. Right click on the registry key and click Permissions…<\/li>\n
  4. Give Full Control permissions to the user logged in.<\/li>\n
  5. Start -> Run -> dcomcnfg.exe -> Expand DCOM Config<\/li>\n
  6. Right click and select properties of “Elevated-Unelevated Explorer Factory”, click the Identity tab and select “The launching user”<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    After doing this explorer.exe will launch as the user specified in the RunAs.exe command!<\/p>\n

    NOTE: If you get permission denied when setting permissions on the registry it’s because of the “TrustedInstaller”. So you need to go to Advanced and take ownership away from “TrustedInstaller”. I normally give the ownership to the “Administrators” group.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Running explorer.exe as a user different from the one that is already logged in using “runas” command is disabled in Windows 7. But there is a workaround for this: Start -> Run -> regedit Navigate to the registry key: HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\\AppID{CDCBCFCA-3CDC-436f-A4E2-0E02075250C2} … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[236],"class_list":["post-1338","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-notes","tag-explorer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevenwhiting.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1338","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevenwhiting.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevenwhiting.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevenwhiting.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevenwhiting.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1338"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/stevenwhiting.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1338\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1423,"href":"https:\/\/stevenwhiting.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1338\/revisions\/1423"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevenwhiting.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1338"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevenwhiting.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1338"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevenwhiting.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1338"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}