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Create a process with ordinary rights from an administrator process

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There is any way to run another process with ordinary rights from a process running as administrator? From a process with elevated rights I want to start a process with ordinary rights like it were started from explorer. I tried impersonation but I didn't work.

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Alex Avatar asked Dec 11 '25 01:12

Alex


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Use CreateProcessAsUser(). Details are in the linked SDK docs.

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Hans Passant Avatar answered Dec 13 '25 20:12

Hans Passant