Gsudo, the open-source alternative by Gerardo Grignoli, has been providing sudo features on Windows long before Microsoft ...

The Windows Control Panel allows you to control all the settings for your computer. Microsoft is planning to move all these controls over to Windows Settings, but I guess that will still take some ...

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 ...

The most recent examples are Steam (one of the games does not run unless Steam is ran as administrator) andirefox beta (the automatic updates cannot be installed unless this is done either). It also ...

In the beginning, all we had was the command line. Then as Windows matured, the need to access that throwback interface waned. That doesn’t mean the Command Prompt is completely useless. In fact, ...

Command Prompt (or CMD) is Microsoft’s command-line interpreter for its Windows operating systems. It enables you to use commands for performing various operations on your computer — everything from ...

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 ...

Even if you've set up your user account to be an Administrator (the default setting if yours is the only account on the PC), Windows insists on running most programs using a standard user token.