Wednesday, April 20, 2005

Branding Explorer running as admin account #2

There is an - perhaps better - alternative to identifying your admin windows than the one I mentioned in my earlier post. Thanks to Aaron, who is doing a lot of blogging on this subject, I have adjusted my bat file to use branding bitmaps as well. Aaron suggested this method in "RunAs" basic (and intermediate) topics below the section Some tips and tricks. Aaron seems to get his idea from someone called Keith.
The updated bat does it all. I have kept the old title branding stuff that uses html redirect. If you have multiple administrative accounts, you may want to differentiate between them. The bat file creates a yellow bitmap so I know I have one that can be used. One of my design goals was to have it all in one bat file (maybe I should have used one script file - some other time maybe). The bat file generates all the necessary stuff. The bat file got too big to fit in here, so you can download it instead. Another problem using cut&paste to transfer bat files is that the process seems to change some characters. You may not be able to see the difference in Notepad - but if a bat file or script fails in strange ways, that could be the reason. Consequently, I provide the file as a download.

4 comments:

Anonymous said...

I've added a pointer from the UsefulTools page on the Non-Admin wiki - thanks :)

Anonymous said...

Great stuff! Any way to do the branding for other web browsers, e.g. SlimBrowser?

Anonymous said...

How do you undo the branding?

Anonymous said...

How do I unbrand explorer/IE after I're run exp.bat v1.1?