Top "Administrator" questions

An administrator account is a user account on an operating system which allow make changes that can affect other users (including, but not limited to, the creation and restriction of user accounts), change operating system options (including security settings), install software and drivers, access all files.

Running a command as Administrator using PowerShell?

You know how if you're the administrative user of a system and you can just right click say, a batch …

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How do I force my .NET application to run as administrator?

Once my program is installed on a client machine, how do I force my program to run as an administrator …

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How do I run a program from command prompt as a different user and as an admin

I am using "runas" to open command prompt as a different user but that command prompt is not running as …

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Batch Script to Run as Administrator

I'm writing a client/server checking program but it needs to run as Administrator. I want this to run silently …

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Start / Stop a Windows Service from a non-Administrator user account

I have a WindowsService named, say, BST. And I need to give a non-Administrator user, UserA, the permissions to Start/…

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How do I set a Windows scheduled task to run in the background?

Does anyone know how to set a scheduled task to run in background using Windows Task Scheduler? There doesn't seem …

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Google Chrome: This setting is enforced by your administrator

I recently updated my Chrome browser and noticed something very weird. Many fields in the Settings have been disabled. "This …

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Psexec "run as (remote) admin"

I wrote some c# code that uses PSexe. I want it to run a remote exe on a machine connected …

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How to run vbs as administrator from vbs?

Can anyone help me with running vbs from itself but with administrator rights? I need rename computer with Windows 8 via …

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What precisely does 'Run as administrator' do?

On Windows 7, I have a command-line program that fails due to file write permission errors, and popping up annoying UAC …

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