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 ...

Security settings on Windows PCs often have admin rights enabled by default. It makes sense since most normal users shouldn’t need admin rights. However, many standard Windows users will come across ...

Q. We have three company computers running Windows 7, and we can access them with user accounts. However, no one knows those computers’ administrative passwords, which is preventing us from connecting ...

This article is over four years old and some details have changed. For up-to-date help, read “Three Ways to Reset a Lost Admin Password in High Sierra” (5 July 2018). Several years ago, I was helping ...

I have been beating my head against the wall trying to get Respondus Lockdown Browser to run without needing admin creds. I have used RUNAS, I have made a scheduled task run as admin shortcut, I have ...

As you can see from the image above, there is no field to type in a password and Yes is grayed out. Turning off UAC might resolve this, but it’s strongly recommended to NOT turn off UAC. It is very ...