You can change the admin user on a Windows 10 PC through the Control Panel. However, you'll need to be already logged into an ...

To protect your Windows 10 PC from hackers, try this: Creating a local user account to be your Administrator account. Many Windows 10 users make the mistake of using the Administrator account as their ...

A new study from BeyondTrust, a software developer focused on solutions for managing privileges in Windows, has some interesting results for organizations that have made the switch to Windows 7. The ...

Sometimes, we need to launch applications on our system with elevated privileges. We can do so by selecting the Run as Administrator option in the right-click context menu for a particular application ...

Microsoft PrintNightmare, a remote print server, has a hack that now gives any Windows user admin privileges to access a PC. The Microsoft PrintNightmare security vulnerability has been bringing ...

Suppose you have created a task to automate your PowerShell script using the Task Scheduler app. To run this scheduled task as administrator on your Windows 11/10 PC, you need to follow these steps: ...

Also any admin rights granted with runas are transferred to the open application. Like I said students can go willy nilly through the Open/Save dialogs traversing the network with full access (or no ...

Helping MSPs to achieve ‘zero standing privilege,’ through implementing account privileges that expire after a period of time, can offer massive risk reduction, according to an executive from CyberQP.

Back in the early days of Linux, things were exponentially more complicated. The distributions were far less mature and required a particular system account to get things done. That account was root - ...