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After install Windows 10, it seems that I lost the ability to run explorer.exe as administrator with a user in administrator group.

The reason I want to do that is, in our team's development environment, we are using a C# exe to do some environment configuration which will start command prompt under administrator mode and subst a drive. As a result those substed drives are not visible within the file explorer since it is run not as administrator. That will be kind of inconvenience and sometimes make mistakes.

I was able to run explorer.exe from task manager with the option "create with privileges" checked and then I can see all the drives in explorer. But now this is not working anymore.

I knew there are other options to workaround this workflow, but just want to make sure that if it is now totally impossible under Windows 10?

Any comment is appreciated.

I discovered a way to run Explorer as admin some time ago:

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  start regedit.exe and go to the following key:

  
  
  

  HKEY_CLASSES_ROOTAppID{CDCBCFCA-3CDC-436f-A4E2-0E02075250C2}

  
  



• make a right click on Permissions and set your user as owner (click on advanced button to be able to take ownership) of the key and give your current user writing permissions.

or use the 3rd party tool RegOwnershipEx to get full control of the key:

• Next, delete or rename the value RunAs.

Now the Elevated-Unelevated Explorer Factory (which causes that the Run As admin is ignored) is disabled and you can start the Explorer with admin rights.

For small things like browsing a folder that cannot be browsed without elevated explorer I start elevated notepad and then in the file open dialog I can browse all directories. With right click I can do quite a bit. (It's a fast solution that mostly does the trick.)

Start command line as Administrator.

Type these commands:

taskkill /im explorer.exe

explorer.exe

magicandre1981's answer works as magic with the regedit and changing ownership, I also added all other users to use explorer I could think of and used http://winaero.com/ to disable the UAC on win 10 - and now I can also run win10 native apps and all my apps work like they did in win7 in admin mode.

• The problem I had is I was running directfolders, and 3dsmax - and I had to run max in admin mode cause some scripts required to write stuff on drive c:, scripts I really need, and when in admin mode, directfolders will not run inside those apps. And I really need directfolders - those scripts and apps save me a lot of time.




• Also in any other app that require to work in similar way - I could either tweak each individual app so it runs with this restriction, or this - this is way way easier and works - and I never received any serious malware for years, just running windows defender.



• Because you just run malware antimalware and don't open obvious scammy pages apps or links.


• Anyway, there's obviously a way to tweak this completely so win10 apps run natively and could be put in an app, but, I'm pretty happy with anything I can do inside regedit and takes a few minutes of my time in order to run my machine the way I want it.