How to execute program as administrator

Sometimes you may have need to run a program with administrator rights. By default Windows Vista/7/8/10 execute programs under limited user account even if your user account has administrator rights. This new feature is called User Account Control (UAC) and it is a good feature to minimize damage a malicious program can make (by not running it with full rights by default).

To execute program as administrator:

Windows 10

1. Locate the program in Start Menu or in Windows Explorer.
2. Right-click the program icon to display context menu. Choose menu command Run as administrator. If Run as administrator command is not visble in the context menu then it is likely in More submenu.
3. Windows asks for confirmation by displaying “Do you want to allow the following program to make changes to this computer?”. Click Yes.
4. Now the program is likely is running with administrator rights.

Windows 8

1. Locate the program in Start Menu.
2. Right-click the program icon and note that on bottom of home screen new button bar is displayed. On this bar select Run as administrator command. If it is not visible click Open file location, then right-click already selected file to see pop-up menu and choose Run as administrator from that menu.
3. Windows asks for confirmation by displaying “Do you want to allow the following program to make changes to this computer?” and shows program name “Password Agent”. Click Yes.
4. Now the program is likely is running with administrator rights.

Windows Vista and 7

1. Right-click icon or executable of the program you want to run and choose Run as Administrator command from pop-up menu.
2. Windows asks for confirmation by displaying “Do you want to allow the following program to make changes to this computer?” and shows program name “Password Agent”. Click Yes.
3. Now the program is likely is running with administrator rights.