How do you run CMD.exe under the Local System Account?

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Though I haven’t personally tested, I have good reason to believe that the above stated AT COMMAND solution will work for XP, 2000 and Server 2003. Per my and Bryant’s testing, we’ve identified that the same approach does not work with Vista or Windows Server 2008 — most probably due to added security and the /interactive switch being deprecated.

However, I came across this article which demonstrates the use of PSTools from SysInternals (which was acquired by Microsoft in July, 2006.) I launched the command line via the following and suddenly I was running under the Local Admin Account like magic:

psexec -i -s cmd.exe

PSTools works well. It’s a lightweight, well-documented set of tools which provides an appropriate solution to my problem.

Many thanks to those who offered help.

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