Background

One common practice for ensuring your system is secure is to run as non-administrative user and to use RunAs to open individual programs that require administrative access.

Problem

Programs that are opened with RunAs another user are not properly skinned - major screen elements such as borders and titlebars are missing.

BTW The problem with the ">" appearing on shortcuts in the Favorites menu instead of the sub-folders is still there from WB4 and it makes the favorites menu *very difficult* to navigate.

Reproducible with 5imple Alpha and WB5 on XP Pro SP2

Wblind.dll      2005/11/28 13:57:10
Wbsrv.dll      2005/11/28 15:52:00
Wbconfig.exe      2005/11/28 16:19:00
Wbload.exe      2005/11/25 19:30:58
Wbhelp.dll      2004/09/18 16:37:00
Wbui.dll      2005/11/20 12:23:40

Note: Try RunAs in the form of right-click context menu *and* as a shortcut command line in the form of ""%SystemRoot%\system32\runas.exe /profile /savecred /user:"username" "C:\MyProgram\MyProgram.exe"" with cached credentials (as the latter passes momentarily through a temporary command prompt, this may be significant, although there is no problem observed skinning programs launched from the command prompt normally).

One hopes this is not impossible to fix - after all, the native skinning engine does not have this problem.