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Tuesday, July 17, 2007 5:08 PM

How to cleanly stop Explorer.exe on Windows Vista

The hidden trick to stopping explorer.exe on Windows Vista cleanly, without terminating it abruptly.
Posted by Aaron Margosis | 13 Comments
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Sunday, July 01, 2007 1:29 AM

Scripting Elevation on Vista

Since RunAs.exe won't run a program elevated, is there a way to trigger an elevation prompt from a script?
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Friday, June 29, 2007 11:20 PM

FAQ: Why can’t I bypass the UAC prompt?

Why Vista is better off without setuid or sudo.
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Thursday, June 28, 2007 2:28 PM

And so this is Vista…

What becomes of all my earlier non-admin tips, tricks and recommendations vis-à-vis RunAs, MakeMeAdmin, PrivBar and their interactions with IE and Explorer? The short answer is that Vista changes just about everything with respect to running with least privilege.
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Wednesday, June 27, 2007 9:49 PM

Follow-up on "Setting color for *all* CMD shells based on admin/elevation status"

Improvements on my earlier post about setting color and title for CMD (and PowerShell) windows, based on admin/elevation status
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Thursday, February 22, 2007 11:44 PM

Setting color for *all* CMD shells based on admin/elevation status

How to automatically set the color and title of *all* CMD shells based on admin/elevation status with a one-time, one-line configuration change to your system.
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