Running as admin question
- Thread starter ColEx
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Running as Admin basically elevates that program to run with Administrator rights. Even on an Admin account, day to day things run without Admin rights.
UAC is a means for Windows to say "hold on my good fellow. This program would like to access xxxxx and needs administrator rights to do so." If you agree you click Yes or OK and it goes and does it.
A properly written application should not need to run as Admin at any time - except for maybe configuration purposes or if the program itself is meant to change system settings. Unfortunately not every developer has caught on yet.
If you can run a game in Standard mode [i.e. - not as an Admin] then try to do so. Though a lot of games still need Admin rights.
UAC is a means for Windows to say "hold on my good fellow. This program would like to access xxxxx and needs administrator rights to do so." If you agree you click Yes or OK and it goes and does it.
A properly written application should not need to run as Admin at any time - except for maybe configuration purposes or if the program itself is meant to change system settings. Unfortunately not every developer has caught on yet.
If you can run a game in Standard mode [i.e. - not as an Admin] then try to do so. Though a lot of games still need Admin rights.