RunAs Workaround for XP w/ IE7 HERE! (Command Line & Shortcut)

[theorist80]

Well...as most of you know, with IE7, the runas command does not work with IE7 anymore. There are numerous "workarounds" out that are long and complex, annoying and don't do exactly what most of us want (know from experience)...but I do have a fix if you would like to run programs/files/folders as another user and or admin. You can do this command from just the command line and it works all the same but this is how to make the shortcut also in case your going to use it a whole lot like me...

1. Create a new shortcut (point it to wherever you like its up to you)

2. Right click new shortcut icon and go to Properties

3. Under shortcut tab, go to "target" and type in the following command

C:\WINDOWS\system32\runas.exe /user:(domain\username) "explorer (location of where you would like to go and or run)"

So as an example:

C:\WINDOWS\system32\runas.exe /user:djohnson "explorer c:\Program Files\Mozilla\firefox.exe"

This will launch your Firefox browser as "djohnson" (which in my case is the admin). Also you will see that this uses explorer instead of IE as the launch utility and I did that since I couldn't get IE7 to launch with proper privileges and it is also less of a memory hog to run it as explorer.