Let’s say you try to start an application by using elevated permissions. For example, you right-click cmd.exe and select Run as administrator. A User Account ...

Even if you've set up your user account to be an Administrator (the default setting if yours is the only account on the PC), Windows insists on running most programs using a standard user token.

Explorer.exe is the executable that opens File Explorer, the program you use for managing files. But it also plays a much more important role, as the default Windows shell. And in its role as the ...