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How to disable "Run as administrator" prompts?

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Participants Sam Peterson6Larry Ortiz5analogwalker2Sandra Cook60Linda Ross38
Sam Peterson6 Sam Peterson6 MemberOP
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joined Aug 2021
#1 ·
So I've got this one program that scans my PC, and once it finishes up, I hit fix it now, but it just shuts me down because it says I don't have administrator rights.
Any way to bypass that prompt so it stops bugging me?
Larry Ortiz5 Larry Ortiz5 Regular
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joined May 2020
#2 ·
You’ll need to log in using a user account that has administrator privileges—you know, one belonging to someone like a brother, a sister, or maybe a parent.
Sam Peterson6 Sam Peterson6 MemberOP
37 messages
joined Aug 2021
#3 ·
I'm honestly stuck here.
I went into Control Panel \ User Accounts and Family Safety \ User Accounts \ Manage Accounts \ Change an Account
but now I'm just staring at the screen...
What am I even supposed to do next?
Larry Ortiz5 Larry Ortiz5 Regular
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joined May 2020
#4 ·
When you boot up your computer, does it actually show you a list of usernames and profile pictures so you can pick which account to log into?
Sam Peterson6 Sam Peterson6 MemberOP
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#5 ·
Larry Ortiz5 said:When you boot up your PC, does it show you a list of usernames and profile pics so you can pick which account to log into?

Nah, when I turn my computer on, all I see is this:
Choose operating system to start
-earlier version of Windows
-Windows 7


Just a heads-up, I used to have two different OSs running—Windows 8 and Windows 7—but I wiped Windows 8 off the drive, so now it's just Windows 7 sitting there alone.
analogwalker2 analogwalker2 Active Member
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joined Dec 2021
#6 ·
Sam Peterson6 said:Actually, when I boot up my computer, this pops up:
Choose operating system to start
-earlier version of Windows
-Windows 7


Just to clarify—I used to have two operating systems installed, Windows 8 and Windows 7, but I uninstalled Windows 8, so now I should only be running Windows 7.

Well, now that you mention uninstalling Windows 8, that's a huge red flag to me! It really makes me wonder... how exactly did you go about removing that Windows installation? Did you actually format the partition where it was living, or did you try some other way to get rid of it?
It sounds like you might not have wiped it out properly—which means the system might still think that Windows 8 admin account is the primary one!
Sandra Cook60 Sandra Cook60 Active Member
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joined Oct 2014
#7 ·
For instance,
http://www.7tutorials.com/how-run-pr...ator-windows-7
Linda Ross38 Linda Ross38 Newcomer
2 messages
joined Jan 2016
#8 ·
John Turner34 said:for instance
http://www.7tutorials.com/how-run-pr...ator-windows-7

one way to handle this is
well, the others have already pointed out the most likely culprit—could it be that you aren't logged in with the right account? If the current user doesn't have administrator privileges, you'll run into walls constantly! It might even be a case of having multiple accounts set up,
Sam Peterson6 Sam Peterson6 MemberOP
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#9 ·
Since I had zero clue how to actually uninstall Windows 8, I just went ahead and nuked my D: drive to wipe them out.

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