Admin mode for XP

I think it is very reasonable to make Admin mode work also in XP.

Or is there already some way to run a lister as an administrator/change existing lister to administrator?

X.

Admin mode is implemented using the UAC APIs which only exist in Vista.

And is there any way to run a new lister with admin permissions on XP?

X.

Not at the moment, no. You can run individual commands using runas but I don't think it will work with Opus as a whole.

Just wanted to ask whether something changed in one and a half year.
I would be really glad if that worked, otherwise I would have to start some other explorer-replacement everytime I need amin-rights.

XP still isn't Vista. :slight_smile:

A good way to do administrator file management on XP is to map a drive to \localhost\C$ (etc.) with the administrator credentials, then manage files via that mapping.

Another way, at least if you're not on a domain, is to use fast-user-switching to login as administrator on another desktop.

Thank you for the first tip - I'll try it.

The fast-user-switching, however, isn't that fast as it sounds (especially if you want to do such a damn small thing which would take just a few seconds). So the best way I can imagine is: click on a button in DO, type an admin password, do what you want, click the button again to exit admin-mode.

But I can also imagine that this is to difficult to implement. Furthermore GPSoftware will probably concentrate on Vista. Probably I'll stick with my current method: Opening another filemanager with admin-rights. Maybe on day I will stop hating Vista (with ServicePack3 or something). If only there were more DO-users wishing this functionality :wink:

What's actually so wrong with Vista at the moment? It works fine for me :slight_smile:

Wouldn't mapping a drive with admin credentials give you exactly what you want?

You click a button to map the drive, type admin credentials, do whatever you need to do, then click another button to unmap the drive.

If you need help making one-click buttons to map/unmap the drive just shout.

OK, you provocated the offtopic :wink:

  1. I'm pretty sure that I would need new hardware in order to run Vista.

  2. First time I saw Vista on the laptop of my wife, I didn't find some things where I expected them. This was one year ago and Vista actually slowed down her laptop. I've installed XP and it runs very nice.

  3. Some older software may not run on Vista. So I would have to search for new versions. To give an example: Nero 6 works great for me but I would have to buy a newer Version for Vista. And those newer versions are bloated imho.

  4. What's wrong with XP?

@leo: I will try it soon. I suppose that I'll be able to do file-operations with admin-rights. But what if I start a programm? Will it have admin-rights? I don't think so.

On XP you can use Run-As to run programs with admin rights.

Also, if you only need the program to have admin access to the files then they can access them through the same mapped drive as Opus without running as admin themselves.

Sometimes I'm to lazy to figure out how to make a program run without admin-rights. In most cases they need write-permission to the programm directory but some Sysinternals-Tools, such as autoruns or procexp wouldn't work without admin-rights at all.

Actually, I use a batch-script for running programms (also the windows explorer) with admin-rights. It has some advantages to the standard run-as-method. It's name is MachMichAdmin and it is based on MakeMeAdmin ( nonadmin.editme.com/MakeMeAdmin ) which itself is based on run-as.

I think I will make a button in DO which will run the mma.bat with the selected file as parameter. So I can start programs with admin-rights.
On right-click this Button would open another explorer (original or alternative) through this script. And if I feel like having to do many file-operations on a folder I will map it, as leo suggested.

Just to add another possibility:

robotronic.de/runasspc/

Runasspc uses encryption, making sure that no one could sneak out the password. Works good here.

Or this: kay-bruns.de/wp/software/surun/
It claims to be even more secure then other alternatives because it disables the possibility to sniff the admin-password with keyloggers.
The page is in german, but in the download-archiv is an english readme.