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Damodar
Damodar

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What is the difference between running an application as a service and as an administrator on Windows OS?

I am working on some application that needs to access the windows network shares. I have some functionality broken in my app if I run it as a system service. The same logic works fine when I run my app as an Administrator. This made me curious to know the difference between running a process as a System service vs Administrator, especially dealing with network shares. Any information or relevant links is much appreciated.

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Sparky
Sparky

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One reason might be because when you run it as Service it runs under your current credentials but when you run it as Administrator you are running the application with an unrestricted token.

This post might interest you although I don't know how relevant it will be to your program: How to add a service SID to a service?.

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