Super fast user switching

Super fast user switching is a powertoy which makes it easy to switch the active user. But you must be a member of the administrator group to see other users! Quite useless for normal users, but this is done on purpose. I contacted Lou, the programmer of fast.exe, and he said (quote):

“It actually has to do with permissions. As a regular user, you don’t have access to the (InteractiveLogon) service. This is because I didn’t want to open another hole in Windows. This is unavoidable.”

The solution opens a hole, but makes super fast user switching usable. (more…)

administrator password, cmd file, computer, c documents, documents and settings, menu programs, msconfig, powertoy, production systems, registry entry, run registry, service properties, shortcut, switching, Windows, windows system32

Written by Jason on November 14th, 2007 with comments disabled.
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Written by Jason on February 12th, 2010 with comments disabled.
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