#RUN AS ADMINISTRATOR WINDOWS 10 NOT WORKING KEYGEN#
Or, if you only need to use admin privileges occasionally, it’s a great shortcut to know as it will help your system stay secure.
This comes in handy if you’re the tech support person in your family or for friends and you’re working on their machines. Then press CTRL + Shift + Enter and it will open with elevated privileges. If not, use the arrow keys to highlight it. Say you want to run Command Prompt, hit the Windows Key and type: cmd, and Command Prompt should be highlighted. In fact, the following can all be done directly from the keyboard and without a single mouse click. Instead of clicking through the menu options, you can use a simple keyboard shortcut. If you don’t want to set apps to always run with admin privileges but need to run them with elevated privileges occasionally, here is a handy tip to know. Also, while we used Windows 10 for this article, you can do the same on earlier Windows versions. Administrator privileges for your Windows session Launching the Dashlane installer directly from a browser launched as administrator when you expect the app to. Keep in mind that unless you have disabled UAC on your PC, that window will still pop up even though you have the apps set to run with elevated privileges. Then check the “Run as administrator” box and click OK and OK again to close out of the Properties screen. Now, click the Advanced button under the Shortcut tab in the Properties window. Next, right-click on the program’s icon and choose Properties. Find the app you need from the Start menu, right-click on it, and choose “Open file location” from the menu. But you can set them to always run with elevated privileges. If you’re a power user and find yourself using these apps a lot, clicking through the menus can get tedious. To run an app as admin, you need to right-click the app on the desktop or from the Start menu and choose “Run as administrator” from the menu.Īlways Run Windows Apps with Admin Privileges The prompt in the background is not running as admin. It shows “Administrator” in the title bar, and the prompt is set to C:\WINDOWS\system32. For example, in the shots below, the Command Prompt in the foreground is running with elevated privileges. The program you’re running will tell you. Not sure if an app is running with as admin or not? No worries.