| Limited access rights to school or corporate PC? |
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| Written by Blanka | ||||||
| Monday, 05 March 2007 | ||||||
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Firstly let me welcome a new author Blanka from Romania. He has published this neat article. Well with that have ever you been limited by your school or corporate IT Department without administrative rights. With this nifty trick you could get back the access you need to install software or access files. This trick will only work in certain circumstances where the group policy has not blocked users from scheduling jobs or being able to execute commands from the commandline. This tip will allow you to gain access to the SYSTEM account which has similar priviledges as the Administrator account. Read on to find out how.... If you have some experience in computers, you most probably used Task Manager until now. Task Manager is one of the most useful tools in Windows, allowing you to see what applications are running and what processes are eating up your computer’s resources. The difference between an application and a process is that an application can launch multiple processes to do multiple chores. For example, when you start your antivirus application, this will be listed as one application in the Applications window, but it will start several other processes in the Processes window (one for scanning the computer, one for blocking unwanted scripts, and so on). To keep it simple, the applications are the ones that can be seen by the user, and the processes are the “behind the scene” workers. If you start Windows Task Manager and take a look at the processes currently running on your computer, you will find that some processes are listed under your user account, and some under the SYSTEM user. Who is this SYSTEM user anyway? He is the father of all users; he has all the rights you don’t have. When you log in to your computer, the Windows that is visible (Start menu, desktop) is in fact one single process, called explorer.exe. If you look this process up in Task Manager, you will find it listed under your username, meaning that explorer.exe has the rights your user account has, and NOT the ultimate SYSTEM rights. Bummer! The trick is to stop explorer.exe, and start it as the SYSTEM user. Please write down or print out the following steps, because you will not have access to this page during the procedure. 1. Start cmd.exe (Start->Run type “cmd”).
2. Once cmd.exe is started, we will add a new task, to start cmd.exe at a given time. The command for this new task is:
3. Now, search for the explorer.exe process in Task Manager and Select it. We will stop this process because we want this process running under the SYSTEM user. Go ahead, and press the End Process button. Windows will now “vanish”, and you will see only the wallpaper. Close the Task Manager and cmd.exe (if they are still running), and wait for the cmd.exe to start – the task we added in command prompt. In this example, it will start at 15:38. 4. Once the new command prompt is started, type “explorer.exe”. This command will start windows explorer as the SYSTEM user.
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