"New Elevation PowerToys for Windows Vista" - Run as Admin for Scripting tools, PowerShell/CMD Here Explorer Context Menus and Drag and Drop Elevation Gadget.
TechNet - New Elevation PowerToys for Windows Vista
"At a Glance:
- Run as Administrator for third-party scripting tools
- Run as Another User
- Prompt Here as System for CMD and Windows PowerShell
- Drag-and-drop Elevation Gadget
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Welcome to another edition of the Elevation PowerToys for Windows Vista. I took a close look at this in the June 2007 issue of TechNet Magazine. Here we are a year later. This time around, I want to show you how I expanded the Run as Administrator functionality to some of my favorite third-party scripting tools, demonstrate how you can replace a nice Windows® XP feature that was removed from Windows Vista®, and look at some of the handy tools that are included in Elevation PowerToys
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Run as Administrator for Additional Scripting Tools
One topic I discussed in the previous article (available at technet.microsoft.com/magazine/cc162321.aspx) was enabling the Run as Administrator option for the native Windows scripting tools. For this article, I've created Run as Administrator PowerToys for some third-party scripting tools:
- AutoIt v3 (www.hiddensoft.com)
- AutoHotkey (www.autohotkey.com)
- ActivePerl (www.activestate.com)
- KiXtart 2010 (www.kixtart.org)
The code for each of these is included in the download for this article, which you can find at technetmagazine.com. ...
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CMD and PowerShell Prompt Here as System
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A couple security focused powertoys that could come in handy for SysAdmin's in a Vista world.
(via TechNet Magazine Blog - Security: New Elevation PowerToys for Windows Vista)
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