I run my Win10 machine on a standard user account, and don't mind entering the admin creds when installing/removing software. But there are certain things I run frequently that require admin access to ...

The most recent examples are Steam (one of the games does not run unless Steam is ran as administrator) andirefox beta (the automatic updates cannot be installed unless this is done either). It also ...

While the cause to run universal apps logged in as an admin may never come up, it's now possible to do this in Windows 10. Conventional wisdom has long held that you should avoid logging in as an ...

Steel Run As is a freeware utility that allows you to assign administrator permissions (or put the system in administrator mode) so that certain applications or commands can execute without having to ...

If you are using Windows 11 and want to open Windows Terminal as administrator, here is how you can do that. Here are four different methods to run or open Windows Terminal as an administrator in ...

The Windows 11 Command Prompt is an application that allows you to launch programs and change settings by typing commands into a window. Compared to similar features in the Windows GUI interface, ...

The How-To Geek continues his quest to make Vista actually convenient for a wider group of people with a few tips on taming AutoHotkey, the Windows scripting language that can automate keyboard ...

An administrator account is the most powerful account available on Windows 7; it allows full access to administrator mode, giving you the ability to make changes to not only your own user account, but ...

Microsoft released today a new Windows Terminal version that comes with a long-awaited feature making it possible to launch profiles that will automatically run as Administrator. To launch ...

Of late, Windows 11/10 users who have been facing some problems, may have read a lot of time, run this or that command in PowerShell to fix this or that problem. While most of us are familiar with the ...

Some files force programs to perform operations that require administrator rights. As an example, if you received a ZIP file containing several business spreadsheets ...