As you can see from the image above, there is no field to type in a password and Yes is grayed out. Turning off UAC might resolve this, but it’s strongly recommended to NOT turn off UAC. It is very ...

Security settings on Windows PCs often have admin rights enabled by default. It makes sense since most normal users shouldn’t need admin rights. However, many standard Windows users will come across ...

Windows finally includes a tool to manage local admin passwords, but admins will still need to do some work to make it useful. Image: Ivan/Adobe Stock. One of the best ways to defend your network is ...

There are a number of Win 7 clients on our domain. All of them have been configured at standard user. Now the problem is that administrator username/password need to be entered for running things like ...

To protect your Windows 10 PC from hackers, try this: Creating a local user account to be your Administrator account. Many Windows 10 users make the mistake of using the Administrator account as their ...