When I pin a shortcut to a DF taskbar, I lose the ability to hold down the shift key, right-click the shortcut and select the 'Run as different user' command. This is an important feature I use on a daily basis for testing and running applications with elevated permissions (other than just Run as Administrator). This prevents me from pinning the items I'd like to left and right monitors, as I can only do this from my main monitor with the standard Windows taskbar.

I look forward to a solution where we can do it on the fly, but I would like the workaround to permanently open as a different user.. I have one app that I always run as a certain user. Thanks!

Thanks, Keith. I do not see the attachment you are referring to. I am familiar with the runas command and I have tried entering it, but it will not work for me as the file path, and while I see a "Command Line" column I cannot seem to edit that. The file I am trying to run as a different user is Active Directory Users and Computers (dsa.msc), so I tried the runas command like this: Runas /env /user:MyDomain\MyUserName "mmc %windir%\system32\dsa.msc", but DF does not like this in the file path. I'm sure I'm just missing something.

Thanks, that worked! Will look forward to the shift+right-click run as different user option in a future release, another scenario is testing web apps as different users (windows authentication) so I change the user on the fly. I appreciate the help!

There is a problem with this workaround... you end up with two icons in the taskbar instead of just one - the runas.exe shortcut that's used to launch the program initially as well as the program itself.

I've tried ShellRunas too, but with no success - I don't believe it can save credentials - and I don't want to enter my username and password each time I launch this program.

My situation: I want two separate instances of qbittorrent. One configured to focus on upload statistics for my private tracker torrents, and one configured with a focus on download stats for use with public trackers.

It's not possible to run qbittorrent portable when a standard installation of qbittorrent exists. It may be possible to run two portable installations simulateously if I first uninstall the standard installation. I may try this.

I have settled on launching my private qbittorrent at system startup and set it to display an icon in the system tray, using the runas.exe method. My public qbittorrent, the default installation using my primary user credentials, is pinned to my DF taskbar.

I feel it's important to point out that Windows user accounts without a password are a huge security risk, even if it's just a secondary account used for launching programs with different settings.