If you're sick of seeing those UAC pop-ups, you can get rid of them by setting programs to run in administrator mode by default. Sarah is a freelance writer and CNET How To blogger. Her main focus is ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

Recently we’ve come across a situation where several Microsoft Office users have been experiencing a problem where the Office files or apps cannot be opened unless Run as Administrator is used. This ...

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 ...