ShellRunas v1.01

By Mark Russinovich and Jon Schwartz

Published: February 28, 2008

Introduction

The command-line Runas utility is handy for launching programs under different accounts, but it’s not convenient if you’re a heavy Explorer user. ShellRunas provides functionality similar to that of Runas to launch programs as a different user via a convenient shell context-menu entry.

ShellRunas works on Windows XP, Windows Server 2003, Windows Vista, and Windows Server 2008.

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ShellRunas

Using ShellRunas

Usage: shellrunas [/reg | [/quietreg ] | /regnetonly [/quiet] | unreg | [/netonly] <program> <arguments>

/reg	Registers ShellRunas shell context-menu entry
/regnetonly	Registers Shell /netonly context-menu entry Note: a command prompt will flash when the program starts
/unreg	Unregisters ShellRunas shell context-menu entry
/quiet	Register or unregisters ShellRunas shell context-menu entry without result dialog
/netonly	Use if specified credentials are for remote access only
<program>	Runs program with specified credentials and parameters