No need to kill anything. Just type "explorer ." from an elevated command prompt. Putting a parameter on the command line is important. You'll get a new process that's elevated, regardless of the "launch folder windows in separate process" setting.
Carl -----Original Message----- From: Kurt Buff [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Monday, February 21, 2011 9:52 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Windows 2008 R2 - Default NTFS Permissions on new drive Just kill explorer once - as soon as you log in. :) On Mon, Feb 21, 2011 at 18:17, Crawford, Scott <[email protected]> wrote: > Yeah, that definitely works, but killing explorer every time you want to > switch contexts gets tedious. You can kill it with task manager too for the > same effect. > > > > Sent from my Palm Pre on the Now Network from Sprint > ________________________________ > On Feb 21, 2011 6:53 PM, Kurt Buff <[email protected]> wrote: > > 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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