How to make it run as administrator by default. Making it easier to run applications in Windows as an administrator without disabling UAC

Thursday, October 17, 2019

Sometimes the download and installation process freezes, or installed games do not launch. Follow the steps below to fix problems with Origin games and continue playing.

Downloading games in Safe Mode now happens by default in Origin. This means you won't have to launch it yourself when trying to fix a problem because all your games will already be loaded in Safe Mode.

We did this to prevent potential data corruption during downloading and to improve download reliability.

Still having problems downloading or installing? Read on.

If you are using a PC and your downloads are stuck at the 4GB mark, it is possible that the problem is due to the formatting of your hard drive. Some hard drives are formatted with the FAT32 file system, which may cause problems with files larger than 4 GB.

To find out the file system of your hard drive, follow the instructions below:

1. Click on menu "Start" on the Windows taskbar.
2. Find "This computer".
3. Right-click on this item and select "Control".
4. Select "Disk Management".

Find the partition with your disks. You will see the size of your disk partitions and their format (for example, (C:)XXGBNTFS or FAT32). If you have a second hard drive, check its format.

If the disc format FAT32, contact your PC manufacturer to find a solution to the problem.

PC

1. Close the Origin client
2. Open "Control Panel"(you can find it using the keywords “control panel” in start menu).
3. Click "Uninstall a program" under the heading "Programs".
4. Press Origin and select "Delete".

Try running Origin as an administrator:

1. Close the Origin client
2. Right-click the Origin client shortcut on your desktop (or in the Origin folder if there is no shortcut on your desktop) and select "Run as administrator".

This will launch the Origin client as an administrator, which will allow you to install the game.

Try changing your User Account Control settings:

1. Close the Origin client
2. Click on the button Windows and type "UAC" in the search bar.
3. In the window that appears "User Account Control Settings" lower the slider (by pressing and holding it) to the minimum acceptable level.
4. Click "OK" at the bottom of the window.
5. Open the Origin client and try again install game by clicking “Install”.

If you can't install the game, get additional help.

Mac

Try reinstalling Origin:

1. Close the Origin client
2. Open Finder.
3. Open the folder "Programs" .
4. Drag Origin V cart or right-click on the icon and select “Move to Trash.”
5. Right click on cart and select "Empty trash".
6. , then try installing the game.

Try running a file with the extension .dmg:

1. Close the Origin client and other non-essential programs.
2. Click "Transition" on the menu Finder at the top of the screen.
3. Select "Computer".
4. Open Macintosh HD > Libraries > Application Support > Origin > DownloadCache.
5. Find the folder of the game you are trying to install, and then find the file with the extension .dmg.
6. Open a file with the extension .dmg. This way you will launch the game in the same way as starting from a disk.
   • If there is an error when launching or you cannot find a file with a .dmg extension, the game will not work.
   • Empty folder DownloadCache by dragging files to cart. Restart the Origin client and start the download again.

Games won't launch on Origin? The "Repair" option will check the installation files and automatically download any necessary replacement or missing files. If corrupted files are found, they will be re-uploaded and replaced.

Try using the "Restore" option

1. Open game library on Origin.
2. Right-click on the game icon.
3. Select "Restore".

Verifying the files may take up to an hour, depending on your computer hardware.

Sometimes it is useful for a program to have more rights than others. For example, such programs include those that maintain your security in the system, in other words, these are all sorts of utilities for checking your computer for viruses.

But what does running as Administrator give? More rights. But the whole point is that viruses can make it so that they will be launched on behalf of the System, then you will not be able to delete them even in the Task Manager, in any way at all, since you simply will not have the rights to do so. And the programs that you run have the same rights as you, which is why in the Task Manager it says that they are running on your behalf (or rather, the user).

What to do? It's very simple, let's imagine that we want the Mozilla Firefox browser to always run with extended rights, what will we do? Open the shortcut properties:

Now in this window, go to the Compatibility tab, there will be a checkbox at the bottom about running as Administrator, check it accordingly and click OK:

Now, when you launch Mozilla Firefox, it will always run as Administrator.

But this is just an example; of course, such a feature is of no use for a browser, but for utilities that remove ad viruses, it’s just right. But there is also a downside, you don’t always need to do this, for example, if you like to play games, then you probably know what trainers are, but in no case should you run them as an Administrator, and to be honest, these trainers are often contain viruses (as well as any keygens). It’s not for nothing that many antiviruses complain about them, saying that they are potentially dangerous software.

How to find programs and features in Windows 10?

Well, I think I also need to write about how to open this window where all the software is installed. Well, that is, the Programs and Features window. I hope this information is useful to someone

So, look, everything is simple here - you need to right-click on the Start icon, there will be a menu, here at the top we select Programs and Features:

By the way, this menu can also be called up with the Win + X buttons! So you press them and the menu appears!

After this, a window will open with the following list:

You see, all that is here is all your software. I don’t recommend deleting anything here just like that, because these, well, could be serious glitches. Also, if you suddenly are a more or less advanced user, then I advise you to use the removal utility

Good day, dear visitor. In today’s article, I suggest you consider not the usual installation and configuration of servers and client stations from the very beginning, but the ordinary everyday life of a system administrator. We will consider launching a specific application as an administrator, we will look at what solutions exist and how they differ. The reason why administrators encounter this problem is quite simple; in our IT outsourcing practice, we quite often encounter a situation where an application (especially from domestic developers) is not UAC-oriented, and why is this, ask the application developers. We will test in the Hyper-V virtual environment on a second-generation virtual machine running Windows 8.1.

Diversity is present

We will consider three utilities:

RunAs - Runs specific tools and programs with permissions different from those granted by the current account. This utility is not third-party; it is included with Windows OS. Help for the runas utility /?

We will test using the built-in utility msconfig.exe, which is included in the Windows OS. This utility can only be launched from an account with administrator rights.

ATTENTION! The utility will be launched from a domain administrator account. In reality, it is not recommended to do this; it is better to create a separate account for such moments.

So, let's try to use the RunAs utility, to do this, launch the command line and write the following

Please note that the password you enter will not be displayed.

After successfully entering the password and account name, the msconfig.exe window will open

Now let's create a shortcut to run msconfig.exe from an administrator account.

After successfully entering the password, the already known msconfig.exe will start.

The question suggests itself: will the administrator allow the user to know the password for an account that has administrator rights, the name of which can be easily viewed in the shortcut properties?

And yet, the password will need to be entered every time when launching the shortcut, which is not convenient for the user; if you go to make life easier for him by using the “/savecred” parameter, then you will create a huge hole in the security system.

Here's an example for creating a huge hole:

You want to make life easier for the user, add the “/savecred” parameter

Launch the shortcut and enter the password, when you first start the utility prompts you to enter the password

Enter the password and say goodbye! When you run it again, the utility will not require a password, or rather, it will now not require one at all, you will think “So what!” Let's try changing the launched utility in the shortcut properties, for example, to cmd.exe.

We are trying to launch and...

"Fuck! He just cleared the arp cache." I think if you use “/savecred”, then you hardly know what an arp cache is and that you need administrator rights to clear it.

The ExecAs utility is designed to run any programs with rights different from those of the current user. Can be used to run the Locker program with administrator rights from a limited account. This allows operators to prohibit access to Locker program database files and, in general, to launch any unwanted programs other than Locker.

ExecAs is a very simple utility that even a schoolchild can work with.

A positive feature is its simplicity.

A negative feature is the lack of work with domain accounts.

So, after creating a local account with limited rights and an account with administrator rights, let's launch ExecAs.

When you first launch it, the application immediately prompts you to enter your account name and password, as well as indicate the path to the application you want to launch. We will run cmd.exe under the name of the local administrator. Please note that the account being entered is indicated without the machine name. To add an application, click on the folder icon, which is located at the end of the “Program” line.

Click “Record”. Our application will be number 1.

Close ExecAs and start again.

As we can see, cmd.exe started immediately when ExecAs was launched. The fact is that if you have one application in the list of launched applications in ExecAs, then this application will be launched immediately, this is quite good, but if you, for example, have more than one application?

Open cmd, go to the directory with the ExecAs application, and launch it with the parameter below

Now we can add another application, for example a calculator

Now if we close and open ExecAs we will see the window above, this should not happen. For this there is a parameter NN - the number of the program to be launched.

Let's create two shortcuts, one for launching cmd, the other for the calculator.

Launch both shortcuts

Don't forget about the program number, which can be changed when adding a program to be launched, and which can be viewed in the list of launched programs.

AdmiLink

AdmiLink is a utility with which the Administrator can create a shortcut that allows users with limited rights to run a specific (without the possibility of substitution!) program with the rights of the Administrator (or any other user) without (interactively) entering a password.

A typical application of the AdmiLink program is the administration of protected systems, in which the user works mainly under his own limited account, and only certain functions strictly limited by the Administrator are launched under the Administrator, without knowing his password and without the ability to run other, unauthorized programs.

Another typical example is the use of AdmiLink to launch potentially dangerous programs, such as a Web browser, with reduced rights without entering a password. So, to avoid infecting your machine with a virus, you can run the Web browser under a limited user account, which dramatically reduces the likelihood of damage to the system. In order not to enter the password of a limited user every time, you can create a shortcut on the Desktop to launch a Web browser under a limited user.

How AdmiLink works

The package includes two programs: AdmiRun and AdmiLink.

AdmiRun is a simple console task that can do only one thing - run other programs as Administrator (or any other user). During installation, AdmiRun is copied to the Windows directory so that it is available in any directory. AdmiRun can work both in batch mode (in batch files) and to launch programs interactively (via a shortcut on the Desktop). The call format can be obtained by typing AdmiRun /? Of course, to run programs as Administrator, you need to know the password. On the other hand, for security reasons, the password cannot be shared openly, otherwise the entire security system becomes meaningless. The solution is to transfer the encrypted account (account = user + domain + password). AdmiRun receives the account demonstratively openly, through the command line, but nothing can be understood from it - the account is transmitted as an encrypted key. The key is tied to a specific executable file; without this file, AdmiRun simply will not be able to decrypt the account. Therefore, if the user tries to run another program with the same key, he will fail. Moreover, to make life more fun for hackers, the keys are generated using random numbers and are never repeated.

So, after installing AdmiLink, I advise you to uncheck the box to create all shortcuts during installation and run the utility only from the directory where it is installed, launch AdmiLink.

1) In the “Set the name of the executable file of the program of interest” field, specify the path by clicking on the floppy disk icon. In our case it will be cmd.exe

2) Leave the “Set command line for the executable file” field empty.

This step is optional if there are no parameters. Also, keep in mind that you can specify that account encryption is bound to the command line so that you cannot gain Administrator rights by overriding the command line parameters in the shortcut.
For example, when making a shortcut c:\windows\system32\control.exe timedate.cpl to correct the system time, do not forget to bind encryption to the command line, otherwise, by editing the shortcut, you can launch, for example, c:\windows\system32\control. exe nusrmgr.cpl and gain access to user management, which is not good at all.

3) The field “Set the starting directory of the program to be launched...” is usually filled in automatically

4) Set the program window display mode.

• SHOW - run a program visible on the screen. This is the normal mode for interactive programs.
• HIDE - run a program that is not visible on the screen. This is a mode for utilities running in the background.

Go to the “Accout” tab

5) In the “Domain name” field, indicate the NetBios name or full domain name, in our case test.lan.

6) In the “Username” field we can enter Administrator or click “…” to select an account.

7) Enter the password and its confirmation and click “Test”.

Press any key. If the message “Account is good to use” appears, then everything is fine and we move on.

8) Click “Generate AdmiRun launch key”; without this key, the application will fail to launch.

9) Go to the “Link” tab and give the shortcut a name

10) Set the directory, and do not forget about the account under which AdmiLink is launched

11) Set the file and image index for the shortcut. Typically this field is filled in automatically. By default, it is assumed that the image is taken from the program's executable file with index 0.

12) Click “Generate command line” and see the magical gobbledygook

13) Click “Create a shortcut now”

Clicking “Create Shortcut Now” creates a shortcut and resets all fields.

Launch the shortcut

Let's try to change the launched program in the shortcut properties, for example, to a calculator

Let's try to launch the shortcut

Please note that binding to MAC, IP and command line was not performed.

To the conclusion. Do not forget that in a running program with administrator rights, you can open the “File” tab, if of course there is one, and do whatever you want with the OS. These are more OS security issues, so be careful.

All people, peace to you!

You can find many articles on the Internet that answer the question HOW to run a program as an administrator, but at the same time, few people talk about WHAT running as an administrator IS. In this article, we will look at what the “Run as administrator” feature, which first appeared in Windows Vista, means.

What is "run as administrator"

Many users mistakenly believe that the “” function supposedly runs the executable file under the built-in account Administrator. This is a complete misconception. You can disable or even delete your account Administrator and make sure that "" does not stop working. Microsoft is to blame for this confusion because it has made a lot of mistakes with the terms in Windows.

In Windows 2000, Windows XP and Windows 2003, any account included in the Administrators group already had the highest privileges in the system and there was nowhere to increase them. But, starting with Windows Vista, a new level of access was introduced - access with “elevation” of rights (in English terminology - “elevation”). Now, to perform some operations in Windows, it is NOT enough that you run the program while working under an administrative account. In addition, you need to include “increase”.

Remember: “Run as administrator” does NOT mean running under any specific account. "Run as administrator" is launching the program with elevated rights, those. with permission to read and write to system areas.

So, if you are working under an account that is part of a group Administrators, then when you request an elevation, you will have to confirm the elevation in the UAC window:

If you are using a restricted user account, you will be required to enter the password for the account that is part of the group Administrators:

What is the difference between the Administrator account?

The local account, which is named "Administrator", differs from others only in that it is granted elevation of rights WITHOUT a UAC prompt.

Why do you need to run as administrator?

As you know, the very first rule in fighting malware is not to work under an account with administrative rights. Only, from time immemorial, few people use this rule. Everyone is accustomed to “sit as an admin” and enjoy full rights. However, later, when the computer becomes infected with a virus, rarely does anyone blame themselves. The fact that the user, sitting as an administrator with UAC disabled, downloaded a malicious executable file under the guise of a game, I launched it myself with the highest rights and disabled the system, the “bad antivirus” will most likely be to blame.

That is why Microsoft found a compromise solution:

1) Demoted administrators' rights. The administrator now uses the user token by default. After all, to launch a web browser or, say, Skype, you don’t need to have administrative privileges.

2) And for cases when the highest rights are really needed, they came up with a regime for increasing rights - the so-called run as administrator.

The administrator is now a user until he requests promotion to perform a specific task.

The User Account Control (UAC) snap-in is used as a bridge between user and administrator modes. Its essence is as follows: when the highest administrative rights are required to run an application, UAC issues a request to increase the rights. And the user must decide whether to run this program with the highest rights or not. The implication is that if unknown or questionable files are running, the user must reject the elevation request and thereby prevent the unknown file from running.

But most users try in every possible way to negate this advantage by disabling UAC. And when User Account Control (UAC) is disabled, the increase occurs without warning. In fact (with some exceptions) by disabling UAC, the user again has access to the highest rights, thereby putting his computer and data at risk.

Summary: run as administrator needed to temporarily increase rights in order to perform a certain clearly understood operation.

Who is to blame: the user or the antivirus

In this article, it would be appropriate to repeat again one thing that we often mention in other articles.

First, don't disable UAC. Perhaps this will one day help you keep your data safe.

You can enable User Account Control by going to Control Panel => User Accounts and Family Safety => User Accounts => Change User Account Control settings:

A more or less advanced user should think about it if the downloaded “picture” or “music” requests an increase in rights, and reject the request.

Secondly, never run files whose origin you do not know, and do not download files from unverified sites.

Nowadays there is a very high percentage of sites on the Internet that distribute fraudulent and malware. And the most insidious thing is that not all malicious programs are viruses.

A simple example. Uncle Vasya creates a batch file that contains a command to clean up the D: drive. Is this a malicious file? No. It's just a set of commands to perform some tasks. Now imagine that Uncle Vasya renames this file “Recipe for Kharcho Soup” and posts it on his website. What happens next? A site visitor downloads a recipe and receives a disk formatting. There are no viruses. The antivirus is silent. What happened? Infection? No. A DECEPTION has occurred. What should the antivirus do now? Block any user action, what if it is thoughtless?

If the user had UAC enabled, there is at least a fraction of a chance that the user would think about it. Yes, undoubtedly, there would be those who would click “Yes” without reading, so that the annoying window would quickly disappear. But you are not going to be one of those eternal victims with “bad antiviruses”?

30.01.2010 18:25

This article explains how to run a program as an administrator or another Windows 7 user without logging off your current session.

1. To run the program as an administrator, right-click on the executable file (with the .exe extension) and select in the context menu that appears.

2. To always run a specific program as an administrator, right-click on the executable file and select .

3. Right-click on the created shortcut and select .

4. In the window that opens, on the tab Label click the button .

5. Select the checkbox.

Note. This program will be launched as administrator only using this shortcut. Double-clicking on the executable file or another shortcut of this program will launch it under your account, without elevated privileges (unless, of course, you are logged into Windows 7 as an administrator).

Running a program as another user

1. Press the Shift key, and while holding it, right-click on the executable file.

2. In the context menu that appears, select .