But remember to be very careful

We’ve previously written about creating a shortcut to open a Command Prompt window with administrative privileges in our post, Create a Command Prompt Shortcut with Admin Rights . If you need to run a program that requires administrative privileges, there are several methods to do so. Sometimes, you may need to run a program as an administrator if it reports an Access Denied error or No Permission error.

If you use any of the methods in this post to run programs as administrator while logged in as a standard user instead of an administrator, you will need to enter the administrator's password in the User Access Control (UAC) dialog box before the program will run as administrator.

NOTE: Be careful which programs you run as an administrator. Make sure you trust the program. Once you apply administrator and UAC permissions, the program will have full access to your computer.