Hi all,

Here’s a quick little tip for you that hopefully may help you guys a bit. Most of us probably still support XP mainly in our enviroment and since IE7 you probably noticed that you cannot do the old right click runas admin and then entering “Control Panel” into the address bar. This was a nice and quick way to get to make administrative changes within the control panel without logging the user out (because all users only have user rights dont they!)

After a bit of digging I have found a way to get into the control panel as admin under as user account again.

What you need to do is whilst logged in as a normal user navigate your way to the c:\windows folder within that folder will be a hidden folder either called IE7 or IE8 (its hidden so you may have to show hidden files and folders). Within that folder you will find the old IE6 style exe and you can quite happily right click and runas on that. You will then open IE6 and will be able to navigate to the control panel as you used to.

Its really handy to still have that funcionality however I think it might rather be a security risk as Microsoft appear to have swept IE6 to the side of the OS rather than replaced it entirely with IE7 and above.