user with non-admin rights can't initialize drive

Heh it's ok I done it myself a couple times reading through a new thread.

Also, I hate it when your (my) post is the last once on a page becuase frankly I won't think ANYONE actually sees it. The next post goes to page 2 and your last post on page 1 had a two minute window of visibility and will never be seen again. :)

Hi,

Thanks for everyone's input. Here's the deal. The reason why the user wasn't able to reinitialize the hard drive, even though he had local rights, is because Windows 7 defaults the Windows Explorer process to the credentials used initially to log in. So, even if you use run-as with a different user credentials it still will run Window's explorer with user account logged in.

You have to launch the Windows Explorer process separately. Believe it or not there is a setting within Win7 that will allow you to toggle this off and on. See below.

Start > All Program > Accessories > Windows Explorer

Go-to 'Tools'; if 'Tools' isn't available then

Click 'Organize', go-to Layout and select 'Menu', then go-to

Tools > Folder Option; click 'View' tab and scroll half-ways down to select 'Launch folder windows in a separate process'

My user is now able to use local 'Power User' rights to do everything he needs to do without giving him administrative rights.