Tuesday, November 25, 2014

Run as Different User in Windows 8

In previous versions of windows I could do the key combination ctrl+shift+ right mouse click and run an application as a different user.

This can be useful for troubleshooting connectivity issues to servers and applications.

I could not find this in windows 8.

This feature is turned off by default on Windows 8.  Below are the instructions to turn this back on.


  1. Press Win+R, and type"gpedit.msc",then press Enter.
  2. In the left pane, click/tap on to expand User Configuration, Administrative Templates, and open Start Menu and Taskbar.
  3. In the right pane of Start Menu and Taskbar, double click/tap on Show "Run as different user" command on Start.
  4. Select Enabled, click/tap on OK.
  5. Reboot the computer.


The full post can be found here Reference

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