{"id":4046,"date":"2016-09-14T11:25:59","date_gmt":"2016-09-14T05:55:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/198.58.113.91\/blog\/?p=4046"},"modified":"2019-05-12T02:53:46","modified_gmt":"2019-05-12T02:53:46","slug":"show-run-different-user-option-start-windows-10","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.winhelponline.com\/blog\/show-run-different-user-option-start-windows-10\/","title":{"rendered":"Show &#8220;Run as different user&#8221; Command in Windows 10 Start Screen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The &#8220;Run as different user&#8221; context menu option allows you to run bat, cmd, exe, msc or msi files <a href=\"https:\/\/www.winhelponline.com\/blog\/run-as-different-user-option-inbuilt-windows-7\/\">as another user<\/a>. This context menu option is not shown by default for Pinned items in Windows 10 Start screen, but can be added using a registry setting or Group Policy.<!--more--><\/p>\n<h2>&#8220;Run as different user&#8221; &#8211; Show on Start in Windows 10<\/h2>\n<p>Start Regedit.exe and go to the following branch:<\/p>\n<pre>HKEY_CURRENT_USER\\Software\\Policies\\Microsoft\\Windows\\Explorer<\/pre>\n<p>(or)<\/p>\n<pre>HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\\Software\\Policies\\Microsoft\\Windows\\Explorer<\/pre>\n<p>Create a DWORD value named <strong>ShowRunAsDifferentUserInStart<\/strong> and set its value data to 1. Exit the Registry Editor.<\/p>\n<h2>REG file<\/h2>\n<pre><code>Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00\r\n\r\n[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\\SOFTWARE\\Policies\\Microsoft\\Windows\\Explorer]\r\n\"ShowRunAsDifferentUserInStart\"=dword:00000001\r\n\r\n[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\\SOFTWARE\\Policies\\Microsoft\\Windows\\Explorer]\r\n\"ShowRunasDifferentuserinStart\"=dword:00000001\r\n<\/code><\/pre>\n<p>This setting corresponds to the following Group Policy setting:<\/p>\n<pre>Administrative Templates | Start menu and Taskbar | Show \"Run as different user\" command on Start<\/pre>\n<p>You can configure this as per-user, or per-machine setting as required.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.winhelponline.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/runasuser-2.png\" alt=\"run as different user - add to windows 10 start\" width=\"650\" height=\"559\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-4049\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The &#8220;Run as different user&#8221; context menu option allows you to run bat, cmd, exe, msc or msi files as another user. This context menu option is not shown by default for Pinned items in Windows 10 Start screen, but can be added using a registry setting or Group Policy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[8],"tags":[441],"class_list":["post-4046","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-windows-10","tag-registry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1381,"url":"https:\/\/www.winhelponline.com\/blog\/enable-balloon-tips-xp-style-windows-10\/","url_meta":{"origin":4046,"position":0},"title":"How to Enable Balloon Tips (XP Style) in Windows 10","author":"Ramesh","date":"December 24, 2015","format":false,"excerpt":"In Windows 10, application and system notifications are shown as toasts, instead of the balloon-tip style notification we've seen since Windows 2000\/XP. 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