Thu 6 Mar 2008
Submitted by Jeff Botts
(The website is in German but has a translation link at the top.)
This is a great tool allowing users with standard rights to run programs with local admin privileges. It is based on SuDown and integrated in the Windows shell. Just right click on the icon of the program you want to run as admin and the context menu will give you the option to “Start as Administrator”. The current stable version doesn’t support global groups, so it won’t work on computers in a Windows domain. There is a beta that the developer put out on 02/24/2008 that is very stable and it works with global groups, too.
SuRun
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How about RunItAs, from http://www.chessware.ch ? Or Steel-Runas, from http://www.steelsonic.com ?
Thanks for the links!
What’s the difference between surun and a Shift-right click runas directly in the Windows explorer?
Daniel, I didn’t try SuRun, but the developer claims that it is more secure because key loggers don’t work. He also wrote that you usually run into problems if you install software using the run as feature of Windows Explorer.