{"id":372,"date":"2006-03-04T15:15:47","date_gmt":"2006-03-04T23:15:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.krunk4ever.com\/blog\/?p=372"},"modified":"2006-03-04T15:18:30","modified_gmt":"2006-03-04T23:18:30","slug":"running-as-non-admin-on-xp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.krunk4ever.com\/blog\/2006\/03\/04\/running-as-non-admin-on-xp\/","title":{"rendered":"Running as non-admin on XP"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So after the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.krunk4ever.com\/blog\/?p=353\">StarForce<\/a> incident, I decided to remove the admin priviledges from my default login account. I made sure I knew the Administrator password and even created a 2nd admin account just in case. A lot of things require admin credentials to work properly in Windows XP, but so far the process has been smooth. I&#8217;ve made a shortcut that runs <strong>runas \/u:Administrator cmd<\/strong>, which will create a command prompt asking me for the Administrator password and then giving me admin credentials on that command prompt.<\/p>\n<p>Programs like Unlocker and Ethereal fail to run properly under my credentials which is expected. Ethereal was a easy fix where I just right clicked the shortcut and clicked <strong>Run as&#8230;<\/strong> and I can choose to run as an Admin. However, Unlocker still failed to work properly. It seems to require Debug access, which I have yet to test it, but I did learn how that Unlocker can be used through the command prompt:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Command line usage:<\/p>\n<p>Unlocker.exe Object [Option]<\/p>\n<p>Object:<\/p>\n<p>Complete path including drive to a file or folder<\/p>\n<p>Options:<\/p>\n<p>\/H or -H or \/? or -?: Display command line usage<br \/>\n\/S or -S: Unlock object without showing the GUI<br \/>\n\/L or -L: Object is a text file containing the list of files to unlock<br \/>\n\/LU or -LU: Similar to \/L with a unicode list of files to unlock<br \/>\n\/O or -O: Outputs Unlocker-Log.txt log file in Unlocker directory<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>So I just added the path to my environment variables and now I can execute Unlocker in any directory (with admin credentials of course).<\/p>\n<p>Getting to the control panel applets with admin credentials was another obstacle. I did find this link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.petri.co.il\/run_control_panel_applets_as_another_user.htm\">Run Control Panel Applets as Another User<\/a> which provided enough information on how to do it, but I&#8217;d still like to be able to pop up a control panel window will all the links already having admin priviledges instead of remember everyone. I guess this will help me in the long term if I remember the shortcuts.<\/p>\n<p>If you want remote desktop access, remember to add yourself into <strong>Remote Desktop Users<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>So what does all get me besides complications? Better Security. Now I don&#8217;t have to worry about installing software that will install crap like StarForce onto my computer without me knowing. So far the change has minimal impact on how I do things, but if things start getting bad, I might probably just change back to Administrator.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So after the StarForce incident, I decided to remove the admin priviledges from my default login account. I made sure I knew the Administrator password and even created a 2nd admin account just in case. A lot of things require admin credentials to work properly in Windows XP, but so far the process has been &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.krunk4ever.com\/blog\/2006\/03\/04\/running-as-non-admin-on-xp\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Running as non-admin on XP&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.krunk4ever.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/372"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.krunk4ever.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.krunk4ever.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.krunk4ever.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.krunk4ever.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=372"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.krunk4ever.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/372\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.krunk4ever.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=372"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.krunk4ever.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=372"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.krunk4ever.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=372"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}