This single action could save your Win10 PC from external threats This article describes how to change the built-in Administrator account name in Windows 10 to bolster your computer's security. We'll ...

I need to check if the currently logged-on user (NT, 2000, XP) had admin privileges by checking a registry key. Is this even possible? <BR><BR>Actually, I need to check if the user can install ...

DesktopStandard last week released software that helps corporations secure end-user desktops by controlling the privileges they have on their own PCs on an application-by-application basis. The ...

Running a Windows computer as a restricted/limited/standard user is much like exercising and eating green vegetables; it’s the right thing to do, but not enough people do it. In large part, I feel ...

Microsoft has introduced a significant security upgrade in its latest preview edition of Windows that aims to lock down local administrator privileges, making it much harder for cyberattackers to ...

Microsoft's August 2025 Windows Security Update is causing pain for administrators after a fix for a vulnerability led to some unintended consequences.… The fix was related to CVE-2025-50173, which ...

Something like 95 percent of all business computer users run as Administrator or root on their computer all the time. I applaud the businesses who have successfully removed elevated privileges from ...

I've used the search, I swear!<BR>All I could find was this totally similar request but sadly no solution was given.<BR><BR>So we have a student down here that needs to be given admin rights over IIS ...

Not all Windows updates are security updates, but even scheduled cumulative updates that add new features to the operating system platform sometimes impact security areas. Take, for example, the ...

Around the same time Microsoft released Windows 11 24H2 to the general public, the company also began testing a new security feature called Administrator protection in the Canary channel. Bypassing ...

Google is rolling out a change to Chromium that "de-elevates" Google Chrome so it does not run as an administrator to increase security in Windows. Microsoft previously introduced a similar feature in ...