Little Known Fact About Mapping Drive Letters

Question

It's easy enough to create a shared folder on one computer and map a drive letter to access the folder on a different computer. Usually the mechanism behaves flawlessly with a hiccup here and there. But, did you know, that a logged on session has two sets
of drive letters? It's true. You create drive letters whilst not running as administrator and you access those drive letters whilst running as not administrator. But, the moment you run as administrator, those drive letters vanish without a peep of explanation
from Windows. However, you are free to create drive letters as administrator and access those drive letters as administrator. I'm sure there is a very good technical reason for this. Something about a security token being different between the two states.
But that does not forgive whoever is responsible for warning the end users about this.
MARK D ROCKMAN

Answer 1

you are correct when you log on even as administrator your rights are still a user, when you attempt a task that requires the administrator privilege you are elevated to that level, if you have UAC turned on you would see the box come up. this is to inform
you that you are now running under administrator privileges, this is by design, this is also what happens when you run the command prompt as a administrator.  It's mostly for security reasons imagine a virus or a program being able to launch a elevated
command and basically taking over the networks shared information simply because you opened a command prompt wit admin rights.
Microsoft has many people that keep saying "how come I can do this and access this" they then publish their findings and the malicious software people take advantage of the security hole so they have to patch, you shouldn't be mad at Microsoft
"I don't work there" be mad at the people creating malicious code.