How to open the control panel as administrator

[Jean-Pierre Coulon]

I have made a shortcut to \windows\system32\control.exe on my desk. The
control panel opens nicely when I click on it, but if I make a right click
on it, run as <administrator credentials> nothing happens. I see
control.exe in the task manager for a few seconds and it disappears.

The same happen with RUNAS from the command promp.

What can I do? I am with XP professional.

Jean-Pierre Coulon (here "cacas.pam" is what others call "nospam")

[Spalls Hurgenson]

On Thu, 7 Feb 2013 01:14:24 +0100, Jean-Pierre Coulon

Post by Jean-Pierre Coulon
I have made a shortcut to \windows\system32\control.exe on my desk. The
control panel opens nicely when I click on it, but if I make a right click
on it, run as <administrator credentials> nothing happens. I see
control.exe in the task manager for a few seconds and it disappears.
The same happen with RUNAS from the command promp.
What can I do? I am with XP professional.
Jean-Pierre Coulon (here "cacas.pam" is what others call "nospam")

I don't think you can. Control.exe isn't really a separate program, it
just calls a particular namespace in explorer and I don't think you
can run two explorer.exe instances with different credentials at the
same time...

You can run Runas against various control panel applets, however (e.g.
runas /user:administrator control.exe inetcpl.cpl )