How to give standard users the ability to run task manager as a admin (windows 8.1)

Question

Is there a way to give a standard user the ability to run task manager as a admin without allowing the user to run anything else as an admin?(Right now, I have to run command prompt with admin privileges,enter the admin password in the window that pops up and then type in taskmgr to run task manager as admin. Is there a way to shorten this process?)

Answer 1

This is not possible, if you could do that, the whole Windows security system would be useless.

As soon as the user has access to the first elevated process, he could start many other elevated processes and do anything on the machine.

The whole point of being a standard user is to not be able to do certain things.

Just keep your elevated command line open and run programs from there, or use a different elevated launcher, that means you are only asked for the admin password once per session.