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Starting Internet Explorer as a different user

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Problem

My machine is a 'server workstation' running Windows Server 2003 connected to a domain. I have created a local user called StandardUser. I'm trying to run Internet Explorer 8 as this user by right-clicking on iexplore.exe in Windows Explorer but nothing happens. No processes containing the user's n…

Error Output

runas.exe /u:StandardUser "C:\Program Files\Internet Explorer\iexplore.exe"

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Fix for: Starting Internet Explorer as a different user

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It's to test how a web site behaves when logged in as a different user. So actually you don't really need to run IE as a different user, you just need to log into the website as a different user? (Instructions below were written looking at IE7 as I …

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