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Run a program as a different user in the Windows 10 UI

by Ian Blair December 9, 2019 No Comments

Occasionally you might need to run a program but need additional rights, for example if you are logged in as a normal non administrator user, and you have to do something that requires administrator rights. Instead of logging out and logging back in again, or logging in again as a new user to the machine you can simply start the program as a different user.

Note: This does not work for universal or windows store applications.

 

To do it, when you right-click on the desktop or taskbar icon hold down the SHIFT key. This will show a menu like this.

Some of the items may be a little different but select the Run as a different user option.

You will see a dialog like this:

Here you can enter the user you wish the application to run under.

For domain users the username should be entered  in the format

domain\username or username@domain

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