jjhuopa Posted September 5, 2008 Report Share Posted September 5, 2008 I am reinstalling XP on a relatives laptop and I will make her a restricted user account for security reasons. I will give Windows Update elevated rights so she won't have to log in as the administrator to update. I have the feeling she might find it annoying to log in as administrator or use the run as-command to install programs, so I was thinking is it possible to configure XP to open all installation files (.exe and .msi for example) with the run as-command as default (without having to right-click the file and select run as)? I am trying to get something like Vistas UAC, so that only admin password would be required. Also, what Windows services does the run as-command need to function in restricted user accounts? I believe it needs Terminal Services, Fast User Switching and Secondary Log-on set to automatic, but please correct me if I am wrong. Thanks! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jjhuopa Posted September 11, 2008 Author Report Share Posted September 11, 2008 Any ideas, anyone? Or is using Run as.. the only way? If somebody knows where the Run as.. command is situated it would help, maybe I could associate .exe and .msi files with the Run as.. command. Found out already that the Run as.. command only needs Secondary Logon service to function in restricted accounts. I am reinstalling XP on a relatives laptop and I will make her a restricted user account for security reasons. I will give Windows Update elevated rights so she won't have to log in as the administrator to update. I have the feeling she might find it annoying to log in as administrator or use the run as-command to install programs, so I was thinking is it possible to configure XP to open all installation files (.exe and .msi for example) with the run as-command as default (without having to right-click the file and select run as)? I am trying to get something like Vistas UAC, so that only admin password would be required. Also, what Windows services does the run as-command need to function in restricted user accounts? I believe it needs Terminal Services, Fast User Switching and Secondary Log-on set to automatic, but please correct me if I am wrong. Thanks! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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