Re: elevating privileges from Admin to SYSTEM

[Nick Withers <nick () nickwithers com>]

On Tue, 7 Mar 2006 23:27:10 +0100
"Knud Erik Højgaard" <kokanin () gmail com> wrote:

> > does anybody know if/how is possible to elevate privileges from Administrator
> > to SYSTEM level in Windows XP SP2 (and Windows in general) using *only*
> > default Windows tools or at last Resource Kit utilities. I've heard this is
> > possible with Task Scheduler... have tried but I didn't work. Any suggestions?
>
> Relaying for a friend:
> c:\>at 12:34 /interactive cmd
>
> Hey presto. The scheduler service needs to be running btw.

It's been a while since I played on a Windows box, but I
believe you can also create a service which launches a useful
process (e.g.: "explorer.exe", "cmd.exe") as "Local System".
Furthermore, I believe that you can do this as a "Power User"
too.

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