# Reinitialize windows a la system.security.switchUser?

**URL:** <https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/reinitialize-windows-a-la-system-security-switchuser/17102>\
**Category:** Ignition\
**Created:** [February 23, 2018, 12:18am UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/reinitialize-windows-a-la-system-security-switchuser/17102 "2018-02-23T00:18:19Z")\
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**Author:** ![brian.mcenulty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/b77776/32.png) [@brian.mcenulty](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/brian.mcenulty)\
**Post date:** [February 23, 2018, 12:18am UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/reinitialize-windows-a-la-system-security-switchuser/17102/1 "2018-02-23T00:18:19Z")

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The system.security.switchUser function will close all of the windows and reopen them in their same state so that the new user’s permissions take effect. Is there any way to do the close/reopen window sequence that this function does without switching users?

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**Author:** ![bfuson](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/bfuson/32/4597_2.png) [@bfuson](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/bfuson)\
**Post date:** [February 23, 2018, 4:31am UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/reinitialize-windows-a-la-system-security-switchuser/17102/2 "2018-02-23T04:31:20Z")

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Take a look at these functions:

- [https://docs.inductiveautomation.com/display/DOC79/system.gui.getOpenedWindowNames](https://docs.inductiveautomation.com/display/DOC79/system.gui.getOpenedWindowNames)

- [https://docs.inductiveautomation.com/display/DOC79/system.nav.closeWindow](https://docs.inductiveautomation.com/display/DOC79/system.nav.closeWindow)

- [https://docs.inductiveautomation.com/display/DOC79/system.nav.openWindow](https://docs.inductiveautomation.com/display/DOC79/system.nav.openWindow)