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 ...

A new study from BeyondTrust, a software developer focused on solutions for managing privileges in Windows, has some interesting results for organizations that have made the switch to Windows 7. The ...

Sometimes, we need to launch applications on our system with elevated privileges. We can do so by selecting the Run as Administrator option in the right-click context menu for a particular application ...

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 ...

Patching software is important, but there are often good reasons why it can’t happen right away. A recent analysis of Microsoft’s 2015 security bulletins shows that restricting account privileges ...

Fuggeddaboud Microsoft’s crazy User Account Control. One security researcher has discovered that just by disabling admin rights, 92% of Microsoft vulnerabilities are cured, or at least the damage a ...

Starting Jan. 17, Microsoft will no longer create DAP when a new customer or reseller relationship is created, according to a post by the tech giant. To manage customers, partners will need to request ...

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 ...

Suppose you have created a task to automate your PowerShell script using the Task Scheduler app. To run this scheduled task as administrator on your Windows 11/10 PC, you need to follow these steps: ...

Then again, you don’t even need the actual device – in this case, a SteelSeries peripheral – since emulation works just fine to launch with full SYSTEM rights. It’s not just Razer’s mice and keyboards ...