Running a printer in administrator mode gives you access to additional configuration options that can help you set up or troubleshoot the printer. If you installed the printer yourself in a small ...

The Windows Control Panel allows you to control all the settings for your computer. Microsoft is planning to move all these controls over to Windows Settings, but I guess that will still take some ...

In Windows 11/10 the User Account Control is enabled by default, to run in Admin approval mode. Windows Explorer or explorer.exe is also set to run in the standard user context. Even if you ...

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 ...

This is very odd, have a new Win 7 laptop and when I go to launch cmd I will normally use CTRL+SHIFT+ENTER and then I get a UAC prompt to launch as admin. Well on this laptop it won't work. Works on ...

Microsoft today released a new version of its open-source PowerToys toolset for Windows 10 with improvements and fixes for issues affecting the search results displayed by the PowerToys Run launcher ...

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 ...

Some programs may require administrative rights to run properly on your computer. In this article we will show you how to launch a program in administrator mode on Windows 8.1.

The upcoming Chromium-based Microsoft Edge browser will warn users when they launch the browser with administrative privileges and suggest that they relaunch the browser as a non-administrator. This ...