Every once in a while I will need to troubleshoot something with the LocalSystem Account.  Using the Runas.exe command with “Nt Authority\System” doesn’t work; I’m left trying to supply a password. I don’t remember if it ever worked in WS2003.

There were a few ways to do this in the older Operating Systems.  The two I used to use were creating a scheduled task to run cmd.exe using the LocalSystem account and creating a Service to do the same thing.  However on Windows 7 these didn’t work for me.  I tried a bunch of different ways but the way that worked the best was to launch Powershell.exe using PSExec.exe.

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