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Run Explorer in SYSTEM account on Windows Vista or 7 using Sysinternal’s psexec tool?

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Problem

Has anyone been successful at launching an instance of Windows Explorer in the SYSTEM account on Windows Vista or 7? It is possible to do this on XP, but I haven't been able to get it to completely work in Vista or 7. Trying to launch Explorer as SYSTEM into session 1 (my user session) results in E…

Error Output

psexec -i 0 -s explorer

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Fix for: Run Explorer in SYSTEM account on Windows Vista or 7 using Sysinternal’s psexec tool?

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Kill all your exploreres pskill explorer Then launch psexec -i -s explorer Your taskbar will be runing as system so everything you open via it will be runing as system. After you finish kill it again and open a normal explorer via Task Manager

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