On my new corporate computer installed with Windows 7 OS, these two things bugged me from the very beginning: how can I remove this unnecessary “Libraries” folder from the desktop (still didn’t figure out what it is for) and how I can disable these window preview hovers (because I know in which window I have what information).

It turned out that I am definitely not alone with both requests – at least that’s what Google told me when querying these topics. But more suprised I was about the fact, that both settings need to digg into the RegEdit and are not standard OS features.

Anyway, here’s what to do:
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Challenge?
Run a Windows application as the local Admin user, and directly pass a file path to open with that app.

Fail attempts…
I thought a Windows Command Line script would be the easiest to achieve my challenge. So I tried using…

RUNAS – which runs a specific application under the given name. BUT doesn’t allow to pass a parameter (f.eg. file path)

START – starts an application and let’s you pass a parameter (f.eg. file path). BUT doesn’t allow you to start the application as a different user.

Solution!
So I continued searching the Internet, and I finally stumbled upon a hint which lead me to the solution: you need to modify a shortcut to the affected application!

In my case I had the issue with the Adobe AIR package- installer and passing directly an Adobe AIR-application to it for install.

Here’s what I did:

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