Run as different user

"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.

Huge amount of files fills up harddrive

I was called to a customer, because their Management Server was running out of space on drive C:
After some investigation, I found that one folder held millions of files taking up 10 GB of space
The folder holding all these files was:

C:\Document And Settings\All Users\Application Data\Microsoft\Crypto\RSA\MachineKeys

The huge number of files did that the GUI did not work, so..
how to delete old files from the command line ??

The I stumbled over an internal utility / command: FORFILES
Forfiles has the option of locating files ie on dates or "files older than xx days" and then fire a command
- just what I needed..

So - this command did the trick:
forfiles /D -180 /C "cmd /c del /A:S /Q @path"
(find files older than 180 days and delete... /A:S because these files are system files)

I navigated to the MachineKeys folder and fired the command...
- well... it runs very slow... but it works.

Now I have freed up some space, so now I will try to locate the application that fills the folder.
As I suspected, it was the Quest QMX tool that throw all these files..
And to be more specific... it was the Oracle extension. I will now have a dialog with the Quest team about this.

Well, it turned out that this was a known bug in that version of the Oracle extension.
It is fixed in newer versions.