Take the 2-minute tour ×  Note: the base problem for me is to be
able to access a network share that I (Win 7 admin user) have
set up when I run an elevated program. Normally the elevated
program will not have access to my non-elevated network shares.
According to Microsoft the registry setting
EnableLinkedConnections will allow elevated processes to access
the network share of the currently logged in (non-elevated)
explorer process.  This explanation makes some sense:   This
forum thread asks about the vulnerabilities opened by this
setting. The answer given links to an article about disabling
UAC prompts (or so I understand).  The question now is, what
does the registry setting EnableLinkedConnections do or allow on
a Windows 7 system, given that we are not running in a domain
environment.  Edit: One thing that I'm specifically interested
in is whether this setting only affects the (visibility of)
network drives or whether it has any other implications.
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