Windows10 App Launch as different user using Appium Code

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Can anyone please tell me how to launch an windows10 application as different user from my code. like we do with “Runas” Command?

Currently if I launch using the below command its launching with my user credentials. I want to use different credentials while launching the app. Thanks in advance.

Code:
AppiumOptions opt = AppiumOptions();
opt.AddAdditionalCapability(“app”, “C:\Calculator.exe”);
WindowsDriver session = new WindowsDriver(new Uri(“http://127.0.0.1:4723”), opt);

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Windows provides runas command for such purpose. In the recent Appium release Windows driver got a possibility to run power shell scripts: https://github.com/appium/appium-windows-driver

So, you could start the session on Root app, execute the desired app with PowerShell, stop the session and then start a new one by providing appTopLevelWindow
value of your app launched under different user account to it. Also, I suppose the Appium process itself must be running under administration account to make that possible

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