Following on from this question about opening file explorer as a different user, I've tried navigating to C:\Windows
, shift+right-clicking explorer.exe
and clicking "Run as different user". When I enter the login details of the user, I get 2 successive error messages, both of which say
Windows cannot access the specified device, path or file. You may not have the appropriate permissions to access the item
If I try the login details of the account that's currently logged in, it works, but the other doesn't. This is the case for both accounts (admins) on my PC.
Edit
There has been some confusion in the comments. I'm trying to follow the accepted answer in the question linked above, and it's not working. Some people are saying it can't be done, so it's odd that there is an accepted answer with 3 upvotes
Best Answer
Per this TechNet Blog Post, explorer.exe looks to be single threaded and won't allow multiple threads running under different user accounts:
The most useful alternative to using explorer.exe, as also outlined in that article, is to download explorer++ and run that as the user you wish to browse files as. You can connect to UNC paths just as easily in explorer++ as you would with explorer, so it seems to be a sufficient alternative. This is also the easiest approach I've come across that doesn't require elevated permissions (such as those needed to meddle in the registry or install additional software).