XP system several tricks to achieve user switching

Use “Logout&#;>Menu Method

The most common way to switch users is to access the User Switching feature via the “Logout” menu. The method is: click “ start → logout & rdquo;, in the "Open Windows" dialog box shown in Figure 1, click the "Switch User" button, the system will retain the current session state. On the surface, this is no different from logging out users, but using the switch user method can keep the session opened by the original user account (for example, if you are in the process of downloading the software, the download task will continue after the user switch. If you use "Logout", then the software download task will be forcibly closed).

Fast User Switching

Obviously, the above method is cumbersome: the user needs to switch to the administrator environment before logging out. In fact, many times there is no need to drive it. We can use the fast user switching function to run the application as an administrator directly in the current user environment!

Suppose we are in the normal user environment and want to configure The trust domain of Norton Personal Security. However, because the current user's "face" (ie, permissions) is not large enough, the firewall configuration program refuses to execute. Let's come up with a quick user switch. "Block": Open “Start →All Programs & Rarr; Norton Internet Security", right-click on the "Norton Internet Security" menu item and select "Run Mode" Menu item, the program will open the "Run Identity" dialog box, click on the "The following users" box, and then select an administrator account in the "User Name" drop-down list box, and in the In the "Password" text box, enter the corresponding account password. Finally click on the “OK” button, as shown in Figure 2. Next, the system will run Norton Personal Security's configuration program as an administrator!

Using the Runas command

Friends who are familiar with Linux/UNIX will not be familiar with this command. With this command, users can freely "change face" between super users and ordinary users. Now Windows 2000/XP also has a similar command ——Runas command. Runas is a DOS command that runs only in the Windows 2000/XP DOS command window. It allows the user to run specified tools and programs with other privileges instead of the permissions provided by the currently logged in user account. The syntax is as follows:

Runas [{/profile