Wish you were someone else?

Administrators should perform normal tasks such as word processing with a user account that does not have administrative privileges. This gives the administrator a practical test of the normal user environment and prevents accidental administrative actions.

Your credentials are your user name and password. To perform administrative tasks, the administrator can logon with administrative credentials. If you are logged on with normal user credentials, you can launch administrative tools with administration credentials by using the Run As option.

Each shortcut has an advanced property option that will prompt for credentials before launching the application, as shown in the following dialog.

A shift-right-click on a program will present the Run as ... option which can be selected to provide different credentials.

From the command line, use RUNAS to launch programs with different credentials.