Thursday, October 4, 2007

Taskmanager - administrator mode

It turns out you can get a taskmanager with administrative rights, without being administrator!

What you do is:
  1. Add yourself to administrator group.
  2. Start taskmanager and click [v] Show processes from all users.
  3. Stop taskmanager and remove yourself from administrator group.
  4. Start taskmanager as before, it will now show processes from all users! You can not change the [ ] Show processes from all users, as expected, but it acts like it is [v] :-)

This is useful if you want to get eg. a taskmanager with admin rights on a Citrix server and only have one taskmgr.exe published. Repeat the steps above for each user that needs the show processes from all users!

Supposedly this must be a Windows bug, but I didnt find anything about it.

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