Comments on: How to Run Control Panel as a Administrator (RUNAS)

By: Don

Don — Fri, 18 Mar 2011 21:08:06 +0000

Great job, been looking for this info for quite some time. Very valuable! Thanks a million!!

By: Manti

Manti — Thu, 04 Nov 2010 11:26:22 +0000

The command did not run for me, it just displayed the runas usage.

But I did come across a fix for it, I just searched for *.cpl files in c:\windows and then did a right click “Run as”

By: Ben

Ben — Tue, 22 Jun 2010 10:19:15 +0000

Vista and 7 should ask you to provide credentials if you don’t have them.
No need for any commands etc.

By: Dathan Matesick

Dathan Matesick — Tue, 22 Jun 2010 08:57:56 +0000

I tried this on Vista SP2. Everything works fine; I’m prompted for the password and the “Programs and Features” window opens as you would expect. However it doesn’t appear to actually open it as the other user because when I try to uninstall a program it says I have to have admin rights to do this. I’ve tried it with both a local admin account and a domain admin account, same problem. Any ideas?

By: Justin

Justin — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 02:53:14 +0000

Finally, someone else in the industry that talks about logging in as a normal (limited) user!

While not as much of a pain, doing a fast “switch user” works as well.

Oh, and with Windows 7, when you run certain programs, they are still not in “admin” mode. You still need to use the right-click method…