Have you been using your computer and tried to do something and the computer told you, you don’t have the permission to do that? Yeah, l get that a lot lol. You may not come across this problem if you are the basic, bare, minimum computer user, where all you do is turn on your computer, click internet explorer and check your email, or simply pop up Microsoft word and type some little note and shut the computer down. Well, if you use your computer a lot and get a little technical with it installing, uninstalling, deleting some files above your current user account permission, then you might come across what l’m talking about. So this problem is a security feature with the current Microsoft operating systems. It originally came with Vista and l think it’s going to continue to be with any other version of windows. It’s actually a great security feature but if you don’t understand the way it works, then u’ll be pissed off when your computer said you can not perform some action because you don’t have the permission. Then you’ll be yelling, you are my computer and you don’t tell me what to do,l bought you and l can do whatever in the hell l want to do with you. Well, you bought the computer but the computer has some rules and guidelines that it follows to render it’s services to the user. So here is the deal, if you are running some programs and they won’t allow you to perform some administrative duties, you can simply elevate you user level to be able to perform such duties. What does this mean? The simplest way to do this without any technical knowledge is to right click on the program you want to be able to perform administrative duties with and choose run as an administrator from the drop down menu that shows. This will give you administrative rights to be able to perform such task defined by the Windows operating system as high level administrative jobs. If you are familiar with Linux, this task is accomplished by using the command SUDO before executing your main task. In linux, it will ask you to provide the root password as soon as you issue that command so that the system knows that you are the administrator, but in windows you do not have to give a password to run the program as an administrator. Some of you might be saying, but l’m the administrator on my computer, yes you are but windows does not run permanently on administrator account, when you use the system on a daily basis, for security reasons. So even if you are the administrator on your computer, you may still come across the situation of not being able to execute some tasks straight from your account, you need to run the program as an administrator by right clicking and choosing run as an administrator from the drop down menu that shows. This is something easy but it can frustrate you if you have no idea what to do when the problem arrives. Now, some times, things can go beyond what l’m describing here when it comes to performing administrative duties on any system, but this post is not meant to handle all situations, if you have a specific question, please put it up in the comment section.
