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Tagged with non-admin windows-10
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How to perform admin operation on non-admin user WSL distro?
I have a WSL distro installed on a non-admin Windows account.
Some WSL operations require privilege elevation (e.g. --mount --bare).
But the admin account can't see the non-admin user's distro.
This ...
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How to enable/disable a LAN connetion as normal user in Windows 10
I have a Win10 workstation and I use a non-admin account for all normal operations.
I want my account to have the right to disable my VMnet1 and VMnet8 adapters because when up, my Wi-Fi becomes ...
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Running as administrator apps block mouse clicks to regular app windows
I am having this weird issue, where if an application is executed as admin, the OS GUI of regular ran apps no longer accepts mouse events.
Also, it is not a case of one foreground "admin" ...
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Any way to restrict *.exe files (e.g. software installers) to not ask for admin rights?
On my work PC, I can download and run *.exe files as long as they are not detected as malware. Portable program installations also run fine.
Some programs can even be installed normally without ...
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PsShutdown needs admin rights when setting t neq to 0
In a batch script on Windows 10 using PsShutdown to sleep my PC I noticed that PsShutdown needs admin rights if setting -t to everything except 0. You get an "Access is denied" message if ...
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Windows 10: Disabling in-app app installation
I have setup a non-admin account for my kids in Windows 10 and installed a game from Microsoft Store (To make it specific: Dragon Mania Legends, it is an online game and needs network connection). The ...
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Windows 10 non admin install
I was at school today and saw something weird I wanted an explanation of how it works. So we can't install any programs on the school laptops, and someone at my school tried to install Roblox. I ...
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MS Windows 10 rights for Tablet PC Settings?
I work for a company with tightly locked down admin permissions on our Win 10 laptops. I need to occasionally tweak the Control Panel -> Hardware and Sound -> Tablet PC Settings, but as a normal user ...
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How to create an encrypted rewriteable diskimage that doesn't require admin to mount on Windows 10?
I want to run some portable programs on a computer where I am not admin. I need the program data to be encrypted. How can this be achieved?
I have looked at the builtin diskmgmt.msc that can create ...
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Windows time service configuration update by non-admin user
I want to configure Windows Time Settings as a non-administrator user and without using an elevated command prompt. I gave permission to user to change the system time from User Rights Assignments.
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Disable Windows animations for a single user
With the System Performance Options, I can enable or disable Windows animations and animation sets among a host of other options. This method sets these options for the entire system and requires ...
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subl command does not invoke the editor unless cmd.exe was ran as administrator
On my Windows 10 system, when I open a regular terminal (cmd.exe), I cannot edit files using the subl command:
subl myfile.txt
The command does not do anything, I did not get any error message. ...
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Chocolatey upgrade all as non admin user
I install chocolatey and the programs I want to install with chocolatey on all my domain devices trough MDT. That works!
But I want to create a task that executes (as SYSTEM) the "choco upgrade all" ...
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Unlock Bitlocked data drive as standard user on the command line
I have a Windows 10 Pro PC, no domain, I don't use BitLocker on the system drive but have encrypted some fixed data drives using BitLocker and a password (no TPM).
When I like to unlock these drives I ...
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