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So far as I know, there is NO Run as Different User. You can Run as Administrator and for the login, provide the local user name and password you wish to use and see if that works. <br />
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Otherwise, log out and log in as the different user. <br />
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Windows Explorer and Control Panel are built into the fundamentals of Windows and not meant to be changed in the way you want. <br />
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Notepad (different and an application) can easily be Run as Administrator. <br />
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I think you will have to log out and log in as the user you want.
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So far as I know, there is NO Run as Different User. You can Run as Administrator and for the login, provide the local user name and password you wish to use and see if that works.

Otherwise, log out and log in as the different user.

Windows Explorer and Control Panel are built into the fundamentals of Windows and not meant to be changed in the way you want.

Notepad (different and an application) can easily be Run as Administrator.

I think you will have to log out and log in as the user you want.

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Not to be confused with the run as administrator option, trying to run file explorer using different credentials. I have seen several posts with this issue, but now real solutions. I am using: <br />
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C:\Windows\System32\runas.<wbr />exe /netonly /user:<i>&lt;Username&gt;</i> &quot;C:\Windows\explorer.exe&quot;<br />
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does not work. (does work for all other EXE's and MSC's) <br />
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I did see one post where someone recommended launching a cmd window as administrator, and a runas and the launching explorer.exe from there. However, that still does not seem to use the credentials specified.
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Not to be confused with the run as administrator option, trying to run file explorer using different credentials. I have seen several posts with this issue, but now real solutions. I am using: 

C:\Windows\System32\runas.exe /netonly /user:<Username> "C:\Windows\explorer.exe"

does not work. (does work for all other EXE's and MSC's) 

I did see one post where someone recommended launching a cmd window as administrator, and a runas and the launching explorer.exe from there. However, that still does not seem to use the credentials specified.

running file explorer in windows 8.1 as different user

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