Runas causes application to freeze

Archived from groups: microsoft.public.windowsxp.general (More info?)

Finally someone with a similar problem as I have =). Do you run a game or
does the program use DirectX? When I try to do Runas with games that uses
DirectX (all games!) they always crash! I suspect that this problem can do
with the PnP vulnerability fix that came recently, but I am not sure. What
kind of applications are you running whit Runas?

"simonc" wrote:

> This problem occurs on a laptop, running Windows XP Pro, SP2 with latest
> updates:
>
> when a limited user tries to run a programme as Administrator, using RunAs
> from a desktop shortcut, the programme window opens, but the contents of the
> window are white, and no operations are possible except closing the window.
>
> In another post on this subject it was suggested it was a Group Policy issue
> - but when I posted this question in the Group Policy group this cause was
> not thought probable. The issue was resolved for another user by stopping a
> process called topsis.exe but this is not running on my system.
>
> I have checked that the secondary logon service is definitely running. I
> also use a desktop with Windows XP SP2 and on this machine Runas works with
> no problem. As yet I haven't been able to find any differences in the setup
> between the two machines.
>
> Very grateful for any suggestions.