Drop My Rights
DropMyRights is a tool written by Michael Howard that allows administrators to run internet-facing applications (such as email clients and web browsers) as a non-administrator. You can read about it and download it from his MSDN article "Browsing the Web and Reading E-mail Safely as an Administrator".
Since DropMyRights is a simple command-line tool, it can also be used to create "safe shortcuts" that always bring up an application as non-administrator:
There's a known limitation with using DropMyRights to run Internet Explorer in "C" or "U" mode when accessing web sites that require SSL or SSPI-based user authentication (e.g. NTLM). See this blog post from Mike Smith-Lonergan for details.
There are several useful comments in Michael's blog post about the article. In a follow-up blog post, readers contributed Shell Extensions so that DropMyRights can be invoked directly.
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