Questions tagged [administrator]
A type of user account on an operating system which will typically allow all functions to be performed to a computer, including (but not limited to) the creation and restriction of user accounts, installing software or drivers, or changing operating system options.
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How to give a single software administrative rights in a guest user on windows 10
In my internet cafe, is a software which requires administrative rights. But the computers will automatically start on a guest form. But its kinda tiring to turn 50 pc on every morning, open in ...
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Win10: How can I delete driver files? (C:\Windows\System32\DriverStore\FileRepository) [duplicate]
My situation and goal:
I have a Asus Laptop which I upgraded from Win7 to Win10 a year ago. So far so good. My Account is since ever defined as administrator, but actually it can't proceed ...
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Create a shortcut to always run as administrator
I'm using a certain application on my Windows 10 which I always need to run as administrator. I pinned a shortcut for it to my taskbar so every time I need to run it I just right click the shortcut, ...
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How can I set a program to run as Admin when opening from file?
Ok, I need to get a little into the nitty-gritty of the registry, so here's what I got and what I want.
I'm using a little Word add-in which converts latin letters to cyrillic ones, straight ...
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Does "run as administrator" on Windows 10 always use the same access token?
I am running Windows 10.
This is the way I understood Windows UAC:
A normal admin user has one access token for his admin account and one access token from which most of the special privileges are ...
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How to prohibit standard users performing administrative tasks having typed administrative passwords?
In Windows 10, if a user on a standard account attempts to perform a task that requires administrative privileges, they are asked to type in a password of an administrative account, on behalf of which ...
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Launch batch script from keyboard software
I was in need of a script that could change my output device between my speakers and my headphone because I do need to change between them quite often and going trough the GUI was starting to become ...
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File access denied and previously functioning file now not working
I have Windows 7 on my Laptop.
I created a folder on my Desktop. I have been having problems with Administrator permissions on files and folders in it - requiring Administrator permission although I ...
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How do I make my changes as admin work for all users on station [closed]
For example, shortcuts to terminal servers, programs pinned to start bar, etc. I have to go in and do it for every user that logs into the terminal.
I'm new to IT and never got any training on ...
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Run a batch-file on login of non-admin user as admin
I need to run a batch script as an administrative user while an non administrative user is auto logging in. Is that possible?
If I use runas I can't insert the password.
The script uses an devcon ...
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Problems in batch files with services on Windows 10
While on Windows 7, I've created a lot of batch files (.bat) to automate some tasks.
Now that I've moved to a different machine with Windows 10 (we've skipped Win8), I'm having some issues with them.
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Users managing on Windows 10 Pro
I have a Windows 10 Pro edition, and I want to make Administrator accounts but still have one Super Admin which is the only one that can reset and create new users.
The scenario :
Myaccount: All ...
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How do I wipe the Windows folder from another hard drive?
With Windows 10 Anniversary, I got a harddrive from a relative and want to wipe everything on it. I am trying the Registry edit of Taking Ownership but 4 folders (servicing, System32, SysWOW64, and ...
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Lost Administrator Password of a HP Pro X2 612 G1 with 64-bit Windows 8.1 installed
I've just bought a HP Pro x2 G1 and only have the user name and password.
I am trying to update and download new drivers but can't because it keeps asking for the admin name and password. The user ...
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restrict new account creation in Windows 10
My son needs to be an administrator on his Windows 10 computer in order to use some applications. However, he keeps creating new accounts to bypass Norton's family protection and other local settings ...
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How to add myself back into sudoers in Ubuntu 14.04?
I have just updated the software, which included replacing the sudoers file.
Having noted the line in the file for myself, I expected to be able to edit it and put myself back.
I was wrong - it ...
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When i click to run as administrator it dont actually runs as administrator
Hi i was going to install something but that something has to be started as administrator so i...
Left click > run as administrator. Then the .exe started in normal mode. Then when i tried with other ...
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Why do I have to run installers as administrator, when I'm the only account on this computer? (windows 10)
I am the only user and only account on my computer, but whenever I try to run an installer, I have to do run it as an Administrator or else it will fail (usually with an error message along the lines ...
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Access denied for newly created folder, unable to change permissions
I just created a new folder: C:\Projects\API from the Command Prompt, using mkdir API from within the projects folder, after deleting an old folder of the same name, using: RMDIR API /S.
I then ...
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cannot patch game because of lack of admin privliges
i download the patch, which is zipped, but when i tell winzip to extract it to the file location, i get this error message saying i need admin privileges. i should have these to begin with, have tried ...
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No admin privilege while logged in as admin
I have windows server 2012 R2 machine.
I am trying to run a setup that requires admin privileges, when I run it it says you need to connect as admin to setup this program, but I already logged in ...
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"service-admin" account on Windows 2008 R2?
I'm looking at all the accounts configured on a Windows 2008 R2 server.
There's one account 'Service Admin' (username service-admin) which I can't seem to find any information on why this accounts ...
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Reset Administrator password on Ricoh/IBM InfoPrint 1532
Not sure if hardware questions are allowed here but not sure where else to go.
My office has at least 100 of these old IBM IP 1532's and a couple dozen 1832's. There was an administrator password set ...
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SSH fails with 'Received disconnect' only for select users
I have the following issue:
when trying to ssh to a remote server using a specific user, the response from the server is
Received disconnect from ***: 11:
Disconnected from ***
if I try ...
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Windows 10 - Admin woes on attempting to elevate any application
I have 5 computers I remotely manage for a customer at an internet cafe the other side of the world from me, using TeamViewer 11. All computers have been upgraded to Windows 10.
2 computers are used ...
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Running VPN Software as non administrative user in Windows 10? [duplicate]
I have several laptops in the field all using windows 10 for an OS. All users are normal user accounts no admin rights. The issue I have is that these users now need a VPN. I have installed OpenVPN on ...
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Windows 10 execucte shutdown/log off script that requieres admin rights
I looked up microsoft page for creating turn off and log off scripts,
but they won't trigger, I guess it's because they requiere admin rights. How can I get them fired?
thank you.
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how to install Adobe Acrobat Pro update as Windows administrator
I've set the Adobe Acrobat Pro EXE to run as Administrator, but updates launched via the main executable apparently do not inherit admin rights (and fail with an error about unable to write to c:\...
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Administrator doesn't have permission to access a standard user's user folder
I have a laptop that I've setup with a separate admin and standard user account. When trying to access the standard users user folder from the administrators account to run a program from the ...
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How can I get into control panel without Admin privileges [duplicate]
I made an admin account on my computer but can't remember the password. now i can't get into my control panel.
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Can I run a subst as admin when I startup?
I have a subst command in my startup folder. It adds my Visual Studio projects to a different drive so that it is easier to access, and also so that the path doesn't get too long.
Occasionally I need ...
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run as administrator keyboard shortcut not working outside start menu search box
The tutorial (http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/11841-run-administrator.html) states that using ctrl+shift+enter can run a program as an administrator in windows 7.
But this method only works in ...
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Make PC "administrative server" on home network, Windows 10
I'm helping a family member setup their home network to comply with their workplace IT security requirements. One of the requirements is that his PC must be the "administrative server" on the network ...
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systemctl access denied when root
When I run
sudo systemctl disable avahi-daemon.socket
I get
Failed to execute operation: Access denied
But it's run as root, how can access be denied? (CentOS 7)
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Setting up multiple standard users with admin privileges on a Mac
I am trying to set up iMacs, OS X 10.11, with Xcode software for standard users to use in a lab. The software uses administrative privileges to run the Developer Tools in the software. What is the ...
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Software to run powershell commands on remote machine
These are machines in different forests, different domains. I want an easy way to run simple commands in the background of their machines such as restarting print spooler.
Is there an easy way to set ...
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windows 10 task manager startup disable button is greyed out
windows 10 task manager startup disable button is greyed out but this is understandable as I am a standard user.
I want to disable startup item from task manager. but the button is disabled.
and ...
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How to make a file "non-admin"
I have this portable virtual box i have in my USB.
As you can see on the above image it is called Portable-VirtualBox.exe(That directory is in my USB) . And if you look closely you can see an admin ...
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Admin account created during deployment doesn't have correct permissions
I'm having an issue where an admin account created during deployment is having major permission issues. One example is the inability to install applications as it doesn't have correct permissions to ...
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Reset password of Administrator Windows Server 2012
How to reset password of Contoso/Administrator with Windows Server 2012? I'll login with that user but I'm forgotten the password. How could I reset that password?
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Gain administrator rights without switching user?
In Windows 7 (64-bit Ultimate in my case), is there any way to gain only the rights of an administrator account, rather than effectively "running" the application as <insert administrator name here&...
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Win7, UAC disabled: processes do not start as Administrator by default
I have a very strange bhaviour in Windows 7: I have a system that has several Administrator Users, and even the built-in Administrator Account is active. These other Administrator-Users all have UAC ...
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Everything.exe asks me constantly for Admin password upon start
I (Win7, 64) installed Everything.exe from voidtool.com.
It is started as service and now if I start Everything.exe (v.1.4.0.713b (x64)) as a normal user it should accept me, but it asks constantly ...
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How to get real admin privileges on windows (TrustedInstaller)
I have an admin user account on my Windows 8.1 machine and I disabled UAC completely and yet I do not have full privileges on my machine.
It happens quite often that I get a dialog saying "You cannot ...
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How to use admin privileges to save files (from notepad)?
Whenever I try to save a file to a system folder (from Notepad, if that matters) it gives me an error message box that simply says "Acess is denied.", even though I am an administrator.
So to edit ...
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Error running software installer as administrator
I'm trying to install .NET 4.6.1 on a user's computer, but when I start the installer -- even with "Run as administrator" -- it fails to the message "This security ID may not be ...
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Run as Administrator Registry
I made a program with a message box that writes to the registry at
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run
and it writes this:
Value Name: Program
Value Data: C:\Users\...
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Windows 10 administrator account
Why does Windows 10 warn me that a program "can't be opened using the built-in administrator account" when I am logged in under a different (non-built-in) administrator account?
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sniff admin user name and password when remotely accessing
so my ISP doesn't allow me to fully configure my router with the default access control, eg: if you want certain port open you need to call the ISP tell them which port and they open it by remotely ...
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Problems with running Visual Studio as admin in Windows 10
I'm building a new Win10 computer for one of the developers at my company and he's a bit...finicky...about how he likes things set up.
One thing that is an absolute must is that he has to be able to ...