Thanks to this thread, I've been thinking about best practices for operating a Windows PC, even for those who are technically-inclined. For years, I've just run as an administrator and never had a ...

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 ...

No, XP (Vista shortly).<BR><BR>The only time I log in as Admin on my machine(s) is when I'm installing/uninstalling a large number of programs. Otherwise, the most that's required is a RunAs every few ...