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Launching an application with another login access level.

I have an application that launches another program. This is on our internal network and is for internal use only. Part of the child program needs access to a specific account that we have created specifically for this program. What I need to do is have program A run program B using the specified login regardless of who is logged in and running program A.

Hope that makes sense...

1) Joe logs in and runs program A
2) Joe performs the task within program A that causes program B to be started
3) Program A launches a new user session with the proper user/password to make program B run properly

Basically, program B has extra access rights and folder access that other user's don't have. So when it is launched it needs to be run as a specific user.

Can this be done (and how is it done) from within VB?

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schworak

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Tried the accepted answer on that page but noting ever runs. It always returns ZERO as the results but never executes anything.

I expected it to fail under Win98 but it still returned zero just like it does under WinXP.

Any thoughts?

schworak

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RunAs won't allow me to embed the password so that one doesn't work but the accepted answer looks promissing if I can get it to actually run something. Anything.