Hey what's up guys in this video here you are going to find out not one not
two not three, but four different ways to run an app as administrator on Windows 10.
And this works with many apps. now for the sake of example, we are going to use
Firefox. alright! let's save the best for first!
the first way is my favorite way because by doing this you can always
automatically run the app as administrator. alright, what you're going
to do is right-click the app and then select where it says 'properties.' And this
will open up all the properties for that app. Now make sure you are in the
shortcut section. Okay now go to the bottom and click where it says 'Advanced.'
Okay! Now it's pretty clear what to do. Select the checkbox that says 'Run as
administrator' and then click 'OK' to confirm everything. and now let's try to
open this app. And as you can see, it now runs as administrator! So now each time I
open this app from this point forward, it will always automatically run as
administrator. As you guys can see here, this is a shortcut file for Firefox. Why
am I mentioning this? Well, oftentimes you need the original source file. Meh!
Enough explanation. Let me show you what I mean here. Let's say for example I'm
trying to do this for Firefox right? So all I would have to do is click the 'Start'
button and type 'Firefox' in the search field and now from the search results
I'm going to right-click the Firefox icon and then I'm going to choose 'Open
file location.' Very important! Because that will take me to the original shortcut
file. Once you get to the original shortcut file, you have two options. You
can choose to go to properties and then go to advanced and then enable
administrator privileges automatically; or you can choose to copy and paste that
file first to another folder and then later enable automatic admission for
administrative privileges for that file in that new folder. Why is this cool? Well, now you can
have a folder dedicated to apps that automatically run as administrator while
the original shortcut file remains the same. All right! Now here is the second
way. The second way is simply by right-clicking. So, in my case here for
this Firefox icon, I can right-click it and then choose 'Run as administrator.'
You can also do this from the Start menu as well. And all you have to do is click the
'Start' button and then type the name of the app in the search field.
In my case, it's Firefox and then right-click the app and then choose 'Run
as administrator.' And now for the third way! And this way involves using a
keyboard shortcut while searching from the Start menu. To
do this click the 'Start' button and then type the name of the app in the search
field. In my case, it's Firefox. As you are
typing the name of the app, you will realize that it becomes highlighted from
the search results. So now, hit Control+Shift+Enter on the
keyboard. And once you do this, immediately, the app will open as administrator. And
now for the last way. And this way involves using the Task Manager. So go
ahead and run the Task Tanager. you can hit Control+Shift+Escape on your keyboard or
you can right-click an empty spot from the Taskbar and then select 'Task
Manager.' Once you have opened the Task Manager, if you see the small window,
click 'More details.
And now go to the top left click 'File' and then choose 'Run new
task.' And now you should see this little dialog box.
what's most important here is this
right below where it says 'Create this task with administrative privileges.'
Make sure this box is checked. And we're going to try to use the Command Prompt
this time because this is something for many of these functions you need
administrative privileges. So to open the command prompt I'm going to type 'CMD' and
then hit Enter. And now I'm going to use a command that like I said would normally
require administrative privileges. So I'm going
to use the system scanning: sfc / scannow. I'm going to hit Enter. And there you go! It's
working! But if I did not have that box checked it would say you need administrative
for your privileges to do this. So definitely as you can see, this works!
And overall this is pretty easy to do -- All of these different ways of enabling
administrative privileges on Windows 10. So definitely for more easy,
straightforward Windows 10 tutorials like this, please subscribe and thanks
for watching!