How to Run as Administrator

[Ian]

Ian submitted a new article:

How to Run as Administrator - Running an application as an administrator in Windows 10

Over the years, Microsoft has improved the security of Windows by restricting the default permissions that some applications run with. Many applications will prompt you if they require elevated privileges, but sometimes if you get an access denied or permission error (or are using older software) you may need to run it with administrative permissions.

By far the easiest way to run software as an administrator is to right click the shortcut or application executable and select Run...

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[Tim Locke]

Here is a suggestion for another article. A simple and 100% effective way to stop the OS blocking programs it considers unsafe because they came from another machine. There is a two stage way that seems to work but it requires using the command prompt which is not desirable unless one is used to command line.