In Windows, an admin account has full access and control over your entire operating system, which is exactly what hackers hope for when sending malware out into the world. If you’re on a Windows ...

Easily safeguard your PC by enabling Administrator Protection within Windows 11's Security application - the benefits far ...

Old Windows Server 2000 box on a workgroup needed to have it's IP address change. No one seems to know the admin password but we can get in with a user level account, just can't change anything. I ...

As mentioned in the recent Windows Insider blog post, the latest preview version of Windows 11 for Insiders on the Dev Channel includes a new feature called “Administrator Protection,” which “aims to ...

For at least 10 years now, security experts have been saying that the No. 1 way to reduce security risks on the local desktop is to prevent users from using admin or root-level accounts when not ...

Verify the functional level of the domain by logging into the Windows Server 2003 DC with a domain admin-level account. Click Start, expand Administrative Tools and then click Active Directory Domains ...

Microsoft has consistently been releasing new preview versions of Windows Admin Center for the past couple of months, and September is no different. Windows Admin Center Preview 1909 is now available, ...

If you try and open an admin-level command prompt however by typing cmd in the Start Search box above The Pearl, right-clicking on cmd in the search results, and selecting Run As Administrator, the ...

I’m often asked how many enterprise admins — the most privileged users on a Windows network — a company should have. The answer is straightforward enough: the bare minimum. Doling out that type of ...