Hmmm... If that's all true, then doing 'pskill explorer' from an elevated cmd prompt and a runas script should do the trick as well, I would think.
Kurt On Mon, Feb 21, 2011 at 15:36, Carl Houseman <[email protected]> wrote: > http://vistavitals.blogspot.com/2008/06/uac-elevate-windows-explorer.html > > > > Carl > > > > From: Crawford, Scott [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Monday, February 21, 2011 1:24 PM > To: NT System Admin Issues > Subject: RE: Windows 2008 R2 - Default NTFS Permissions on new drive > > > > Not quite. You can create a separate process with “explorer /separate”. > This works great in XP with runas for creating an explorer window under a > different security context. It still works in Vista/7/2K8 to create a > separate process, but it still gets created without admin group in the > token. > > > > From: Michael B. Smith [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Monday, February 21, 2011 7:36 AM > To: NT System Admin Issues > Subject: RE: Windows 2008 R2 - Default NTFS Permissions on new drive > > > > You can’t actually do a run-as for Windows Explorer. There is only a single > process per login, so the run-as doesn’t work as expected. > > > > Regards, > > > > Michael B. Smith > > Consultant and Exchange MVP > > http://TheEssentialExchange.com > > > > From: Paul Hutchings [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Monday, February 21, 2011 8:26 AM > To: NT System Admin Issues > Subject: RE: Windows 2008 R2 - Default NTFS Permissions on new drive > > > > Not consciously no – should it be just to access a hard drive? 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