RE: Alternative to Windows Explorer

["Halverson, Chris" <chris.halverson () encana com>]

I am fully aware of the shift-right click command in win 2k and win xp, but
he was asking about alternate programs that his admins could use to windows
explorer.  The command line gives you a little more options than using the
shift right-click plus scripts can be made for admins to run for ease of use
as well.  Real men don't click!  LOL  

-----Original Message-----
From: Lambillion, Paul 
Sent: Monday, June 07, 2004 1:37 AM
To: Halverson, Chris
Subject: RE: Alternative to Windows Explorer


Chris

Have you tried doing shift-right click?  On my Win2k box it gives you more
options, including run-as...

Regards

Paul

-----Original Message-----
From: Halverson, Chris 
Sent: 04 June 2004 18:59
To: 'Locher Thomas'; security-basics () securityfocus com
Subject: RE: Alternative to Windows Explorer


Thomas, 

You could also try a command line runas to progman.exe.  Yes the old program
manager from win 3.1 days still lives on newer versions of Windows.  You
could run any number of programs with this interface.  The only downfall is
that you need to be local admin on the box to run properly, in what I found.
And trying to remember how progman works is another 

; )

CH

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Subject: Alternative to Windows Explorer


Dear List,

we are trying to work out a policy, that every admin should be logged on to
his client (WinXP-SP1) with a non-administrative account (smartcard logon)
and start the programs for administrative tasks with the runas - command as
admistrator. That works rather good, the account cannot access our
fileservers and all the other things that can be compromised by a worm or
virus. There's just one problem, you can't start windows explorer with
runas. We use the internet explorer  (runas with the administrative account)
for managing file servers, but this is rather bad (for example there is no
automatic refresh). Is there an alternative to windows explorer with the
same features? The few i found cannot access the network by typing UNC
Paths, only with mapped drives - they are more useful for local usage.

Best regards,
Thomas



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