When you need to use some programs, you have to run them as an administrator. If you use these programs regularly, we think you’d better set apps always run as an Administrator Windows 10 to make things easier. Now, you can read this post to learn the guide to do this job.
You Need to Run a Program as Administrator
When you are using Windows 10, you may have to run some programs as an administrator so as to access the advanced functionalities to make some changes of the system settings.
For example, sometimes, you use Command Prompt or PowerShell to deal with some issues, and in this situation, you may need to set to run them with the elevated privileges to execute most commands.
When you use applications which require elevation in daily life, you may notice that they can’t run with the highest privileges by default.
To make them work normally, you need to right-click on that application and choose Run as Administrator from the pop-out context menu, or use other methods to make the program run as an administrator.
As a matter of fact, it is not complicated to make such a selection. However, if it is an app that you use very regularly or even daily, this will be an annoying thing.
Thus, you may ask is it possible to set apps always run as administrator on Windows.
The answer is YES.
If you make such a setting to skip these extra steps, things will be much easier and quicker.
How to Set Apps Always Run Administrator Windows 10
In the following Windows 10 guide, we will show you how to make such a setting to configure program shortcuts to run with elevated privileges.
Step 1: You need to open Start on Windows 10, and search for the app which you need to run elevated. Then, you will get a search result. After that, you need to right-click on the top line of the search result and choose to Open file location.
Here, if you have installed the Windows 10 October 2018 Update, when you make such a search, the Open file location option on the list of actions will appear on the right side.
Step 2: Then, you will get into the file location directly. Please just find the shortcut of the application, and right-click on it. Next, you need to choose Properties from the pop-out menu.
Step 3: You will see another small pop-out menu as follows.
Then, you need to click on the Shortcut tab, and then choose the Advanced.
Step 4: Then, you will see the window below. Just check the Run as administrator option.
Then, please click on the OK button.
Step 5: Click the Apply button and OK button in succession to complete the operation.
After this setting, every time you open that app, it will run with the elevated privileges.
One more important thing: if you are using the default User Account Control Settings (recommended), you still need to approve the UAC dialog to continue with the application.
Then, is it possible to revert the change if needed?
Actually, you can use the same in instructions to revert the change. However, when you enter step 4, please uncheck the Run as administrator option.
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