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~Robear Dyer (PA Bear)
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Calvin Daling wrote:
> I needed to open an instance of IE in Vista under my domain admin account
> so
> I used the right-click, run as administrator method and then authenticated
> as my domain admin account and an instance of IE opened properly for me.
> The
> problem that happened after that was that I was also running Outlook as a
> regular user and when I clicked a link in Outlook, it opened that link in
> a
> new tab in my elevated instance of IE. That sound wrong to me. I would
> think
> that it should have spawned a new instance of IE as my regular user rather
> than allowing a regular app to open a link in an instance of IE that was
> running as a domain admin. Am I wrong in what I was expecting? Or is this
> a
> problem?
>
> Thanks,
> Calvin Daling
> Trinity Western University
>
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