jftuga Posted May 18, 2006 Share Posted May 18, 2006 As an experiment, I edited HKLM\SW\MS\WNT\CV\WL\Shell and set the value from "Explorer.exe" to "psexec -d -l Explorer.exe". Now when I logon, I do not have admin abilities any more, but Explorer does not open up in shell mode any more either, but rather (for lack of a better term), "My Computer" mode.Does anyone know how I can correct this? I still want explorer as my shell, but also want to psexec it. I know I could run as a standard user instead of Admin, but this is not the point of my experiment.Thanks,-JohnTitle edited -- Please, use [TAGS] in your topic's title.--Sonic Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sonic Posted May 18, 2006 Share Posted May 18, 2006 Perhaps you can't use application with its switchs in "Shell" regkey. Try with a cmd. Btw, I havn't really tested alternative shell ... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LLXX Posted May 18, 2006 Share Posted May 18, 2006 I've tried cmd.exe and taskmgr.exe as the shell... it works. No switches though.Maybe you could encapsulate the whole shell invocation line in a batch file and call that from the Shell key? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sonic Posted May 19, 2006 Share Posted May 19, 2006 Maybe you could encapsulate the whole shell invocation line in a batch file and call that from the Shell key?It was I mean in my post Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Delprat Posted May 19, 2006 Share Posted May 19, 2006 Perhaps the matter is Explorer.exe itself which is looking if that "Shell" regkey is exactly "Explorer.exe" before running in shell-mode...Why are you trying that ???You can make a low-rights user... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jftuga Posted May 19, 2006 Author Share Posted May 19, 2006 (edited) Perhaps the matter is Explorer.exe itself which is looking if that "Shell" regkey is exactly "Explorer.exe" before running in shell-mode...Why are you trying that ???You can make a low-rights user...I thought this might be the case, but after running RegMon, I don't believe this is how it makes it determination. I even disable System Restore, renamed explorer.exe to explorer_real.exe, created a (compiled) AutoIT script named explorer.exe that simply did a Run("c:\windows\explorer_real.exe"). This did not work either.I want to make just about everthing low rights, but still run programs like ADUC, Enterprise Mgr, System Mgr, etc. w/o having to type in a RunAs password.-John Edited May 19, 2006 by jftuga Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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