How to runas almost anything in Windows XP

I only just figured this out. Duh. But it's been incredibly useful.

Launch explorer.exe in a separate process with an administrator account. You can do this via a command line or run

RUNAS /U:administrator "EXPLORER.EXE /SEPARATE"

Anything that now launches from this explorer window will run with the administrator credentials. Be sure to close it!

Also, to launch the Control Panel as an admin, "runas control.exe" is your friend! Happy time saving nerds!