In this edition of the Windows Desktop Report, Greg Shultz explains how you can activate and use the real Administrator account in Microsoft Windows 7. We may earn from vendors via affiliate links or ...

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 ...

Windows 10 includes a hidden Administrator account that you can use to manage all the important data on your computer. In previous versions of Windows, such as Windows XP, this account was built in ...

Applies To: Windows Server 2003, Windows Vista, Windows Server 2008, Windows 7, Windows 8.1, Windows Server 2008 R2, Windows Server 2012 R2, Windows Server 2012, Windows 8 This security policy ...

We show you how to make a user an administrator in Windows 11 or Windows 10 via Settings, netplwiz, Command Prompt, and more. Windows has two general account types, the “Standard” user, who gains ...

Just like losing a password, losing your administrator account privileges is one of the lock out situations where you, the user, cannot run anything. This can happen due to system conflicts, or ...