An administrator account is the most powerful account available on Windows 7; it allows full access to administrator mode, giving you the ability to make changes to not only your own user account, but ...

First, you need to terminate the existing explorer.exe process. Open Task Manager Locate explorer.exe process Right-click on it and select End Task. Having done that you have three options to run ...

The first and most convenient method to change administrator on Windows 11 is to use the Settings app. You can open Windows Settings app and tweak some settings to switch the administrator account.

Running a printer in administrator mode gives you access to additional configuration options that can help you set up or troubleshoot the printer. If you installed the printer yourself in a small ...

The upcoming Chromium-based Microsoft Edge browser will warn users when they launch the browser with administrative privileges and suggest that they relaunch the browser as a non-administrator. This ...

In early June, Computerworld published the story, “Visual Tour: 20 Things You Won’t Like About Windows Vista.” At the bottom of page 5 of that story, I wrote that the built-in Administrator account is ...

Q: I’ve run every computer I’ve ever had in admin mode, with no password, including Windows 10 set up as classic Windows. I did not know that was a big no-no, so I added a strong password to the admin ...

OS X is a multiuser and privilege-based computing environment that sequesters functionality based on various account types, such as administrator and standard accounts. This allows some users to have ...

Microsoft today released a new version of its open-source PowerToys toolset for Windows 10 with improvements and fixes for issues affecting the search results displayed by the PowerToys Run launcher ...

Microsoft published a list of upcoming features and bug fixes for its Edge browser earlier this week. One of the items included in that list, a fix for an administrator mode notification, is already ...