>...on Thu, Jan 10, 2008 at 10:28:34PM -0800, Thor (Hammer of God) wrote: > > > it turns out, Outlook is doing nothing close to what I feared. > > Basically, the second instance sees that another Outlook window is > > running in the same interactive logon space, and when it starts, it just > > calls another popup in the previous Outlook space and then terminates > > itself (that's close enough, anyway). The good news is that there is no > > "user hopping" or "boundary crossing" here. > >Sounds comparable to what the Windows Explorer does when >it is not expicitly set to run as a separate process (or >started with the /separate switch). Or what firefox, mozilla and other do when you start them on the command line: open a new window/tab in the current session. That was the first thing I was thinking off when I saw the description. Except that typically these days the "RunAs" in unix terms would have failed with "Can't Open Display": a different user cannot open the display. Casper
