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Windows Vista users need to use the RunAs.exe console tool or the ShellRunas shell extension from Windows SysInternals to launch programs as a different user. Windows 7 includes the Run as different user feature as a built-in option in the right-click menu.
From Chris Jackson’s Semantic Consonance:
"Run as different user" option is different than "Run as administrator", because you don’t have to elevate. You can run as an admin user, but be running as that user with non-elevated credentials. Also, it supports net only credentials, which Run as Administrator doesn’t.
The Run as different user context menu option in Windows 7 is implemented as an extended menu, which is only displayed if you press and hold the SHIFT key when right-clicking on an executable file or its shortcut. This is one of the hidden menu items which I earlier wrote about.
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What I’m mostly annoyed is that it does nothing for explorer.exe. They made this too dependent of UAC (which I disable as soon as I remember).
It doesn’t seem to work with any links that are *.msc files, but if you preface the command with mmc, it will allow the menu option to show.
Doesn’t work for me using the SHIFT + Right-click option when trying to open “Active Directory Users and Computers” from the Windows 7 admin pack. I still only see “Run as Administrator”. Windows 7 Beta (Build 7000) connected to a domain. It works for some programs in the admin pack, but not others. Weird.