Windows 10: When using RunAs, elevated account is used by applications other than intended!!

Hello,As IT administrator, I use RunAs throughout the day to run various tasks and applications which requires elevation.I have access to the Firewall logs, and I noticed that once I use RunAs to elevate any task or application, such as CMD, PowerShell, etc., any of the web browsers Edge, FireFox, Chrome uses my elevated account in their sessions instead of my user standard account! This means my elevated account is being used by an application without requesting that! I am wondering if anyone has noticed this, and what could be the reason for that and how to fix it? Clearly, I don't want

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runas requires elevation - what do I do about this?

C:\Users\luser>runas /user:admin "mmc gpedit.msc"

Enter the password for admin:

Attempting to start mmc gpedit.msc as user "BBY\admin" ...

RUNAS ERROR: Unable to run - mmc gpedit.msc

740: The requested operation requires elevation.

 

runas requires elevation - what do I do about this?

Hi,

Thank you for posting your query on Microsoft Community.

I understand that you are facing issues with Windows 10.

Runas allows a user to run specific tools and programs with different permissions than the user's current logon provides.

In order to help you better, please provide the information:

1. Which programs are you trying to run on the Computer?

2. Are you trying to run command (C:\Users\luser>runas /user:admin "mmc gpedit.msc") in Command Prompt?

If you trying to the run the command in Command Prompt, then I suggest you to perform the below steps and check if it helps.

1. Right click on Start Menu.

2. Click on Command Prompt(Admin).

3. Then enter the below command:

C:\Users\luser>runas /user:admin "mmc gpedit.msc

Reply to us with the information, so that we can assist you better.

Get back to us if you need any further assistance on Windows related issues and we will be glad to help.

 

How to runas an application requiring elevation with a different user?

I want to run regedit as a different user (i.e. to edit that user's registry entries).

So I've run cmd as an Administrator, then did

It asks for my password but after I type it in, I get

I understand that regedit has to be run as an administrator, but I am running the command prompt as administrator. OtherUserName is an Administrator type user.

I'm guessing that even though I'm running for the current user as administrator, my acceptance of that doesn't pass over to OtherUserName.

But this is something I am able to do in Windows 7 Embedded.

I've tried:

• Group Policy - "Behavior of the elevation prompt for Administrators" - both Prompt for Credentials and Elevate without Prompting
  
• The upvoted answer here - Windows 10 pro, after anniversary update I can't use "runas administrator shortcut" anymore (runas /profile /savecred /user:administrator "cmd.exe" first, but with the current username instead of administrator).
  
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