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Opening Explorer shell with admin privileges on XP (with IE7 installed)

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Mar 15, 202656649 views
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I used to demote my user account so that it had no admin priveleges and used a 'sudo-like' trick where you create a shortcut to IE6 and enabled the 'Run with different credentials' option to open a shell window as local admin so I could install and uninstall things, etc. When I upgraded to IE7 this…

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Fix for: Opening Explorer shell with admin privileges on XP (with IE7 installed)

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I always use the following command to launch a separate explorer shell on XP/IE7. Looks like switch is undocumented (haven't seen it much on the web till recently). Use this syntax in "Target" of an shortcut: Replace ComputerName with yours (may be …

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