Adding "Runas" back into Vista and Windows 2008
Barry Tousley is a PerformancePoint's software design engineer tester (SDET) that offers plenty of tips to our team. I keep telling him he should start a Blog. Here is something he sent the other day that might help as you with Internet Explorer and permissions.
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"Hi All,
Just thought I’d pass along a tool I found out about today. Both Vista and Windows 2008 lockout the “runas” context menu feature on a lot of applications, (most familiar, and painful, would be IE… unfortunately this doesn’t hack around that one), however, this SysInternals, (which Microsoft now owns), tool called “ShellRunAs” adds a “Run as different user…” option back into the context menu for applications, (it adds it back into IE as well… but the OS keeps it from working for IE).
You can download the tool from HERE, (which comes as a ZIP file containing the EXE and a licensing agreement), and run the exe from an “administrator” command window like this…
Shellrunas.exe /reg
Afterwards you will be able to Right-Click on an App and be able to run as a different user once again. The screenshots below are what you’ll see.
Here are “Excel” and “SQL Management Studio” context menus before adding “Runas…” back into the Context Menus…"
