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Hello, I am on Windows 7 Ultimate (x64) and I have a couple of users created. One user I have as an admin that I only use for a couple of applications that don't like to run without admin access, and a standard user I use for everything else (music, pictures, games, etc). It would be really nice if I could some how run a nested session to my admin account from my standard user account so I don't have to deal with using switch user (which is slow and prevents me from using certain voice chat features in my standard account unless I switch back). Is there any way I can do this? I tried mstsc to localhost, which comes up with a message stating I cannot because I am already in console. Then I tried the loopback (127.0.0.2) which allows me to enter my credentials and pops up terminal services, but gives me the message "The number of connections to this computer is limited and all connections are in use right now. Try connecting later or contact your system administrator." Is there any way to accomplish what I want without using the "Switch User" feature? Thank you!
January 31st, 2010 11:00pm

If you right click on an application you could select Run as administrator while logged in as your standard user account. Would that work for you? Here is an example from right clicking on one of my desktop applications.http://cid-25ab668da65c8fbe.skydrive.live.com/self.aspx/Windows%20images/RunAsAdministrator.pngMS-MVP Windows Desktop Experience, "When all else fails, read the instructions"
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January 31st, 2010 11:31pm

If you have not turned off UAC (User Account Control) all tasks that require administrative rights when running as a standard user prompts you to supply the credentials of an administrator account. This sounds very much what you want to accomplish!
January 31st, 2010 11:34pm

While this is a valid option (with an exception of one program), I close and reopen these a lot and it would be nice to not have to constantly reenter my admin credentials. I would much prefer to have my admin logged in on 1 monitor and my standard user logged in on my other monitor. EDIT: This is in reply to Al
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January 31st, 2010 11:41pm

This is not true in many cases where I am in a program and it just denies me from continuing on as opposed to asking for credentials. EDIT: This is in reply to Andreas
January 31st, 2010 11:41pm

This is not true in many cases where I am in a program and it just denies me from continuing on as opposed to asking for credentials. Ok, then have you turned off UAC? Verify this by looking up "Change User Account Control settings" in the search box in the start menu and make sure that the setting is not at the bottom where it says "Never notify". Any other setting will present you with the "prompt for credentials" box when administrative priviliges are required.
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January 31st, 2010 11:44pm

This is not true in many cases where I am in a program and it just denies me from continuing on as opposed to asking for credentials. Ok, then have you turned off UAC? Verify this by looking up "Change User Account Control settings" in the search box in the start menu and make sure that the setting is not at the bottom where it says "Never notify". Any other setting will present you with the "prompt for credentials" box when administrative priviliges are required. UAC is turned on. The issue is that Windows does not detect or prompt in every scenario where administrative access is required. When this happens, the applications just give an access denied error, or state they failed to write.
January 31st, 2010 11:49pm

You might look at using the command line runas command in a batch file and subsequently a desktop shortcut. I am not clear if you can save your password or not but there is a /savecred switch that you might look at. From the Start > Run command line type cmd /k runas /? for the syntax.FWIW I have never tried that so as always YMMV... MS-MVP Windows Desktop Experience, "When all else fails, read the instructions"
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February 1st, 2010 2:27pm

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