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Always Run as Administrator
In Windows 7 you must be an Administrator to install or do certain functions in Windows 7. Majority of the time it ask you if you want to run as administrator to do what needs to be done. However ...
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When did I set the administrator password for windows 7?
I've just installed a windows 7 professional x64 [on my netbook], and started a program installer as a normal user (edit: whose account type is admin), that should have been started as administrator.
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Run program with administrator permissions from user account
I need to set up a lap-top for a colleague. He should have normal user account, but in order to connect to the university network, he requires a program that needs administrative permissions to run. ...
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How to run a .bat file as administrator automatically each time when I start a specific program?
In order to speed up my computer start time I disable the VM services in startup; and those services are mandatory for me to start the VMware Workstation when I need to use it.
So I wrote a simple ...
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How can I log into Administrator in normal mode using Windows XP Home?
I have a machine running Windows XP Home SP3.
I have a script that I run regularly on other Windows XP pro boxes that calls the Administrator account to do something. For security purposes, I won't ...
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What are the risks of giving developers admin rights to their own PCs? [closed]
I need to convince my internal IT department to give my new team of developers admin rights to our own PCs. They seem to think this will create some security risk to the network.
Can anyone explain ...
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Edit hosts - run as administrator does not work
I am trying to edit hosts file on my computer.
I click start -> find notepad shortcut -> run it as administrator (window on dimmed background appears) -> i press yes -> find hosts file -> edit it -> ...
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Manually enter login information in Windows 7
In our office users have their own Windows 7 computer with their own account. I've started adding a hidden Administrator user for use with certain network services and so I can access their machines ...
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how to create a hidden administrator account in window 7?
i am working on Window 7 Home Premium. Many time i share my laptop with my friends. i want to create a guest account for simple working. i wish there should be some superuser administrator account, to ...
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Disable “You'll need to provide administrator permission” prompt in Windows 7
I'm just bored clicking on the CONTINUE button every time "You'll need to provide administrator permission" prompt appears, as I'm the only administrator of the PC. I've configured Notification system ...
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Run certain applications as administrator by default
Every time I want to start a program that modifies files and stuff I have to "run it as administrator", otherwise it won't function correctly.
Can I somehow run it as admin by default?
I dropped ...
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Do all Mac OS X applications require Admin permissions to 'install'?
I'm new to the whole Mac OS X operating system. I'm trying to learn and I've got myself a MacBook running Mac OS X 10.7.3.
I've created a test user that can not administrate so that I can test out ...
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Access denied on virtual machine
I have a friend on the same network as me hosting a virtual machine using vmware server.The guest OS is Windows 7 and Windows Server 2003.He granted me administrative priveleges for the machine but ...
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How do I Log on as Administrator using Remote Desktop?
As title says.. How do I logon as Administrator using remote desktop..
I have a laptop and 3 Dekstop PC's all running windows 7 etc.. I can create accounts on my Desktops and connect to them via ...
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HOMEPATH not defined when running cmd as administrator (Windows 7 x64)
The application I want to use needs the HOMEPATH environment to be set in order to work flawlessly. It's usually no problem because it's set by default. Here's the cmd dump:
C:\Users\xxxx>set home
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Is it possible run CMD.exe as Admin -AND- Start In a different partition?
There are many questions on running CMD.exe as admin on Windows 7, however none of them appear to include a different "Start In" directory / partition.
I can start a command prompt in a different ...
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How to run script as administrator?
I'm looking to do what's asked in this question: how to run a powershell script as administrator
The accepted answer says to use a shortcut. I'd like to do that, but when I get into Advanced ...
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Access other users with admin via SSH
I have the admin password to a remote computer(mac). How can I access another user that I do not have the password of?
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Start elevated command prompt in %UserProfile% directory by default?
When I start an elevated Command Prompt in Windows 7 or Windows Vista, the initial directory is the %SystemRoot%\system32 directory.
This is the default Windows behavior, and is not a problem ...
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What is the '+' at the end of long listing format? [closed]
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What is the + at the end of Unix permissions in a long listing format?
Here's an example
drwxr-xr-x+ 6 reza reza 204 Mar 5 20:23 .ssh/
Although I am the ...
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Reset Windows 7 group policy settings
For my system, there are two accounts. I applied a few changes to a secondary account via the group policy object snap-in of Window's management console. Despite applying these changes to the ...
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Windows 7: how can I elevate a running cmd window?
How can I elevate a open cmd window such that it has administrator rights as it would have if i would start it with "run as administrator"?
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Installing driver without admin privileges on win xp
I'm trying to gain Administrator privileges on an industrial brake press so we can install a wifi dongle for networking. The problem is I don't have the password for the admin account and the company ...
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What permissions are required to print to a locally attached shared printer?
I have several users who have to be a local admin on a PC because that PC has a printer locally attached to it. Apparently they cannot print to it unless they are local admins. I really would like to ...
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Why doesn't starting websphere application server require admin credentials?
We use following syntax to stop a webpshere application server:
stopServer.sh servername -user admin_userid -password admin_password
However the start command is less luminous
startServer.sh ...
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Create a shortcut with administrator rights for hosts file in Win 7
I'm trying to create a shortcut link on my desktop that is a link to the hosts file in Windows 7. The problem is that this shortcut will not open in administrator mode as the option will be greyed out ...
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how to run a command with admin priviledges when I don't have admin account on my Win7 computer
I am trying to open cmd with admin priviledges. That's because when executing a command I received a message that I don't have sufficient priviledges to run this command (mklink).
The problem is that ...
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Give me back admin rights on Win7
I (current user) was a member of Administrators group. I changed my group to another one. Now, I can't change back to Administrators:
Also, this command (and several others) was denied:
net user ...
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What is the difference between the Administrator account and a User account that has administrator privilage?
The Backstory
Wife has a multiplayer Minecraft Server that she runs Tectonicus (a map generating program) against. Tectonicus is set up to use OpenGL (aparently ONLY OpenGL). When attempting to run ...
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Can users besides Administrator run defrag in XP?
I know you can't do this by default, you will get somethign like "You must have administrator privileges to run this application.." or whatever, but I have tried various ways to get around this. I ...
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Administrator account is corrupted?
After successfully solving my previous problem i stumbled upon another shortly after. Once i logged into my administrator account i have noticed the following missing:
Quick launch which also cannot ...
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Ubuntu administrator prompt doesn't display
I'm running Ubuntu 11.10 on a Toshiba A300-16l laptop, and have been experiencing various very strange problems recently after upgrading to the latest Ubuntu release.
The most obvious problem is that ...
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Powershell Access to the path denied
I'm sure this has been asked a million times, but I can't figure out why I can't run this simple command in powershell:
PS> new-item -path c:\users\me\desktop\testfolder -name (get-date).txt ...
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What are the dangers of having administrator privileges on my Mac?
I have a Mac and I'm the only user of it. I have admin privileges and I just want to know what some of the things that could go wrong are.
So here are my questions:
What can go wrong if I use an ...
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Windows 7 “Run as Administrator” when already an Administrator [closed]
Possible Duplicate:
Why do I need to run commands as administrator if my account is member of administrator group?
Silly question here: why in Windows 7 (and presumably Vista/Server2008) ...
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How to overwrite system32 files in Windows 7? (that really works please)
I have Windows 7 64bit installed on a virtual box (the fact it is a virtual box shouldn't be relevant).
I need to overwrite /Windows/System32/d3d9.dll but the system won't let me.
I've read the same ...
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Administrating “public” computer at local church?
I'm administrating a "public" computer, that is the computer at our local church. We use it to record the services in Ableton Live, show lyrics with Easy Worship and so on.. On it we have Moonscape ...
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How can I see the rate at which data is sent?
I have an app that sends messages over UDP in some known format. I'd like to know the rate at which these messages are sent. To be clear, I could care less about the datarate - it's a loopback, so ...
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Remember the administrator password on Windows
sudo on linux remembers the entered password for five minutes, so that when it's invoked multiple times in a short time, I don't have to keep inputting the password. Can I do the same thing on ...
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How do I elevate permissions from within a batch script in Windows 7 or 2008? [closed]
Possible Duplicate:
Batch file - start program with admin rights
I'm writing a batch script that requires administrator permissions to execute, so to start it I need to right-click and ...
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Domain user not having admin rights on local machine
I'm using Windows 2003 server as active directory and Windows 7 as a station. I need to have a regular domain user have admin rights on local machine. I added domain user to local admin group but they ...
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There's a hidden folder in windows vista, but no available when I show hidden files: I need to open cmd as administrator
There's a hidden folder in windows vista, but no available when I show hidden files: I need to open cmd as administrator.
The folder is named c:\folder.000 and there are c:\folder.000\dir0000.chk ...
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Java plug-in runs only for administrators in Firefox 8
I had Firefox 3.6 installed on a Windows XP with the Java plugin working fine. I then installed Firefox 8 and now the Java plug-in only works for users with admin privileges. The Add-Ons -> Plugins ...
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Is there a way to fix admin privledges once and for all?
This is driving me mad. I am on a Mac OSX 10.6.8. I have been to the info box and given myself read and write privileges. I am the sole owner of my computer, yet I get told that I do not have admin ...
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Missing “Users” tab in in Windows XP Professional Group Policy Object Editor
I want to add some restrictions to a non-admin account, but when going through:
Start -> Run "mmc" -> (in MMC console) "File" -> "Add/Remove Snap-in" -> (in "Adding/Removing Snap-ins" window) I choose ...
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Shoutcast admin panel not showing most of information
I recently start audio streaming broadcast through third party - they provide server to broadcast audio. But when I accessed Shoutcast admin panel on the server, there's not much information I can
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How to get rid of the “Failed to update system registry” dialog for an application with normal user permissions
I have an application which is modifying the Windows registry upon execution. With administrator privileges, the application executes fine (no problem) but whenever a normal user executes the ...
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Windows xp registry permission problems
this one has me banging my head against a brick wall.
Basically the computer in question has had it's problems but we have done a windows xp repair and got all the windows updates in and done got a ...
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Access is denied while moving a file from different volumes
i have a portable 500GB HDD plugged into my dell xps system. The system have windows 7 professional edition. the problem is that when i try to open a file(visual studio .sln file) it is saying that ...
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Shares created via WSHNetwork.MapNetworkDrive are not visible by administrator
I have a script that maps some network drives via WSHNetwork.MapNetworkDrive - but those drives are not visible by processes running as Administrator.
Is there any solution to it? (maybe some flag?)
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