"Run as different user" option in the context menu

[Santy]

I have a Vista Computer at my home. I saw a Run as different user option in the context menu of windows 7 on which i work in my office. Its really a nice in built feature of windows. I need to have the same in my Vista OS as well. Is there any way, it can be added in Vista's context menu ?

[Solomon]

Yeah, you can add it in Vista as well by downloading ShellRunAs. Here is the step by step way to do so :-

1. Download ShellRunAS and save it anywhere on your desktop or any drive.

2. It is in Zip file. extract the file ShellRunas.exe from the zip and paste it into this folder C:\Windows\System32.

3. If prompted for permission, click continue.

4. Now open Command Prompt and type shellrunas /reg and press Enter key

5. Click OK button when successful

Thats it..ShellRunAs is compatible with Windows XP, Windows Server 2003, Windows Server 2008, and Windows Vista.

[Michael Sabin]

The command-line Runas utility is handy for launching programs under different accounts, but it’s not convenient if you’re a heavy Explorer user. ShellRunas provides functionality similar to that of Runas to launch programs as a different user via a convenient shell context-menu entry.

[SalVatore]

Using ShellRunas

/reg
Registers ShellRunas shell context-menu entry

/regnet
only Registers Shell /netonly context-menu entry

/unreg
Unregisters ShellRunas shell context-menu entry

/quiet
Register or unregisters ShellRunas shell context-menu entry without result dialog

/netonly
Use if specified credentials are for remote access only

<program>
Runs program with specified credentials and parameters