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Does a livescan see all user accounts data?

If a device contains multiple user accounts, will a livescan recover all the data from all the different accounts even if they are password protected?

When scanning a device in live mode -
If the user account that launches start.bat from the Collection Key is an administrator account then it will be able to scan and access all the data belonging to other user accounts (administrator and standard even when password protected) - see the example belowsearch terms for different users
 
If the user account that launches start.bat from the Collection Key is NOT an administrator account then it will need to provide administrator credentials in order to run start.batUAC snapshot