Some of our Windows 10 tips involve tweaking the Registry (for example, this tip on how to get rid of default cloud service icons in File Explorer) or running a few lines of code in the Command Prompt ...

File Explorer is essential for any Windows user. It is a great tool for accessing and managing your files, and normally when you open it, you get default privileges. If you want more rights, you can ...

Basic security measures in Windows are heavily related to the administrator account, without which you wouldn’t have much freedom to install or run specific programs, services, or video games. Even if ...

When using a Windows computer, you may find yourself needing to manage to hardware connected to the computer. This can be done by opening the device manager as an admin, where you can modify, update ...

While the cause to run universal apps logged in as an admin may never come up, it's now possible to do this in Windows 10. Conventional wisdom has long held that you should avoid logging in as an ...

Although you can't run Windows 8-style apps as an administrator, you can launch the full Internet Explorer 11 program in Administrator mode. This admin mode grants elevated privileges when launching ...

I run my Win10 machine on a standard user account, and don't mind entering the admin creds when installing/removing software. But there are certain things I run frequently that require admin access to ...