When using a Windows computer, you may find yourself needing to manage to hardware connected to the computer. This can be done by opening the device manager as an admin, where you can modify, update ...

Although you can't run Windows 8-style apps as an administrator, you can launch the full Internet Explorer 11 program in Administrator mode. This admin mode grants elevated privileges when launching ...

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 ...

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 ...

Windows Registry is a hierarchical database. It holds information related to settings, options, and other values for software and hardware on your system. Windows allows users to make changes in the ...

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 ...

I showed you how you can use some third-party tools as well as policies to enable a more powerful RunAs that works with more than just your own user token. OK, so I showed you how to make the tool run ...

I installed win2k on a fresh system about 3 months ago, and have been running as administrator ever since. <BR><BR>Is this bad? And why? What about in a Linux situation? <BR><BR>How do i create a new ...