Enable Standard Users to Run a Program with Admin Rights in Windows

Enable Standard Users to Run a Program with Admin Rights in Windows If you have multiple users using your system, then you are most probably assigning them the standard user accounts. This allows you to regulate what they install and how they can manipulate the system and application settings. As good as that is, you sometimes may need to allow a standard user to run a program with admin rights. In those situations, you can use a free third party utility called RunAs Tool. But if you don’t want to use a third-party tool, here is how you can create your own shortcut of the target program in such a way that it runs with the admin rights without entering any admin password whatsoever. Let Standard Users Run Programs as Admin To let standard users run a program with administrator rights, we are using the built-in Runas command. To start, you need to know two things before you can do anything. The first is the computer name, and the second is the username of your administrator account. If you don’t know the computer name, press Win + X, then select the “System” option. The above action will open the System window. Here you will find your computer name listed.