Welcome to this short tutorial on edit the hosts file in notepad as administrator. So that you can edit and save the file and if you are like me who will need to do this, again and again, every day it’s really pretty disturbing to open the notepad first as administrator then using the menu open the host file edit and save it so it’s pretty disturbing. We’ll try to create a shortcut for that so to create a shortcut where you want to create the shortcut right click on for example I am treating the shortcut on my. I’ll go to kneel then shortcut here. I will write “notepad%SYSTEMROOT%system32driversetchosts” this is where your host’s file leave so next and give it a name.
Example we are giving test finish oh I have a file with the name test to give us other tests to finish. So now if I click I see my host file is opened but the problem is that it’s not opening as administrator. To do it I will right click and select properties then I will go to the advanced button under the shortcut tab and select run as administrator and that’s it apply ok. Now when you double click the shortcut icon it will first ask you for confirmation to run it as administrator the new tool run the host file. You can do some changes, for example, I chanced to save it and it is saved.
The next time if I open it you see the change is saved so that’s it it’s pretty cool quite easy just take a look once again it’s just for one let me write you control okay. It’s pretty simple note that space person test person just system root backslash system32 slash drivers etC post actually this is the location of the this-this is the location of the host file and this is the application that will run when you double take the shortcut. So this is the targeted application and this is the targeted file that will be opened with the application.This is it a very short tutorial. I hope this will help guys like me who’s who works in the virtual host in their computer when developing web applications. So thank you.
It looks like also has to be if you wish to make changes to a system file. So, here’s what solves the problem.Step 1: Search for Notepad from the Start menu or navigate to a place where you might have pinned it. Right-click on the.exe and choose to Run as administrator.Step 2: Open the desired system file from this instance of Notepad by using Ctrl+O (for me it was my ), make your changes and hit Ctrl + S.Your changes should save without any error or problem. Hope that helps.Last updated on 8 Feb, 2018.
Sarah Jacobsson Purewal/CNETSome of our Windows 10 tips involve tweaking the Registry (for example, this tip on ) or running a few lines of code in the Command Prompt or the Windows PowerShell.If you're beyond basic Windows 10 customization - and comfortable working in the Registry or the Command Prompt - you've probably noticed that you can't run programs as an administrator by default. Instead, you have to right-click on the shortcut in the Start menu, click Run as administrator, and then click Yes when the User Account Control (UAC) window pops up. This is the case even if you have an administrator's account. It's a minor inconvenience, but if you're in the middle of adjusting your system, it can get pretty annoying.Here's how to set a program to always run in administrator mode, so you don't have to go through the UAC warning every time you want to use the Run command box. Remember - the UAC warning is there to keep you from inadvertently making big changes to your system, so it's important that you only apply this tip to programs you're completely comfortable using.Sarah Jacobsson Purewal/CNETStep 1: Open the Start menu and click All apps. Find the program you want to always run in administrator mode and right-click on the shortcut. In the pop-up menu, click Open file location.
Only desktop programs (not native Windows 10 apps) will have this option.Sarah Jacobsson Purewal/CNETStep 2: A File Explorer window will open to the location of the program you want to access. Right-click on the program and click Properties from the pop-up menu.Sarah Jacobsson Purewal/CNETStep 3: In the Properties window, click the Shortcut tab and then click Advanced.Sarah Jacobsson Purewal/CNETStep 4: In the Advanced Properties window, check the box next to Run as administrator and click OK.Step 5: The program will now open in administrator mode when you click the shortcut from the Start menu. You'll need to repeat these steps for each program you want to have this feature.Pretty simple, right?
There is a way to set all programs to always run in administrator mode without changing the properties for each individual app, but it's better to start slow (and it involves a Registry edit), so maybe we'll tackle that next week.
I understand HOW to use it. What I don't understand is WHY it's necessary, and WHEN it's necessary.
Sometimes, people suggest installing a program as administrator by right-clicking the.exe and selecting run as administrator. Sometimes, people suggest running a program that's already installed as administrator if it's not working properly. I just don't get it, I'd like to know when I should do it and when it's not necessary. Can somebody please explain this? Or refer me to an article that elaborates on this topic? I looked through the stickies but I didn't see anything other than a guide showing you how to do it.
It's quite simple. You 'run as administrator' when you need administrative privileges.Best practice for any OS is to normally log on as a user with restricted privileges (this prevents you - for example - from accidently deleting important files).
But if you need to do something that requires an administrator (e.g. Adding a new user), rather than logging off and logging on as an administrator you can just select 'run as administrator' and supply the appropriate password.
Just for that one program or command you are acting as an administrator. Once it's finished you're a restricted user again.
The account I'm typically logged in under is an administrator account, but I still have to do this often, why is that?It is a little confusing in Windows 7 (used to be more obvious in earlier versions of Windows). There are administrator accounts, which are more powerful than ordinary users, and the Administrator account. This latter is usually hidden and is more powerful - basically it can do anything on the PC. The lesser administrator accounts can't do everything, but they are allowed to elevate their privilige level to full Administrator.
When you 'run as administrator' you are, for that command, using this more powerful administrator account. The account I'm typically logged in under is an administrator account, but I still have to do this often, why is that?The reason is that under Windows XP everyone used Administrative accounts to do everything. The problem with that is if you're an administrator and you happen to, say, click on a malicious web page, the web page has full administrative rights too. It can go ahead and install anything it wants on your system - viruses, keystroke loggers, adware, etc. Same goes for e-mail attachments and a host of other risks.Using an administrative account all the time is BAD security practice. Very, very bad.
It's like leaving all your doors and windows unlocked because you can't be bothered to fish a key out of your pocket every time you come home.It became fairly obvious that there just wasn't any way to convince people of how bad it was, so Microsoft invented 'UAC' (User Account Control) for Vista and Windows 7. What UAC does is REMOVE your administrative privileges when you log on to an account that has them. If you run a program that requires administrative privileges, UAC warns you that a program is trying to acquire them and lets you permit or deny.Now, if you click on a malicious web site or open an email attachment that contains a virus, you get warned that something is going on. It's up to you to be vigilant and not just blindly let programs do things unless you know what program it is and what it's trying to do.It's like opening your door up to strangers. You'd do it if, for example, you made an appointment for someone to come and clean your carpets and the guy at the door is wearing a 'Carpets 'R Us' uniform. But if a stranger shows up at your door unannounced, they'd better have a pretty convincing story before you open that door.
With XP also, it is quite a major annoyance if you made the users just a Restricted account. People regularly want to install stuff (good or bad), and annoying them by indicating that the user needs an Administrator account just made everyone else make themselves administrators.sminlal already indicated what are the problems when you are using an admin account that has the capability to do everything.With Vista and 7, they were trying to make it that you ran an application as an Admin on limited instances (not all the time). This could help with preventing some malicious or suspicious apps from elevating themselves and doing what they want.This is more like sudo on.nix systems, but with a gui. Thanks, this is making a lot more sense now. I didn't realize the new administrator account was actually a limited administrator account.However, I'm still not clear on why I've seen people suggest running.exe's as administrator (right-clicking on the executable and selecting 'run as administrator' instead of just double-clicking it).
If the.exe required administrator privileges, it would prompt you for them anyway, so what purpose would this serve? I've seen people suggest it on message boards when a person was having trouble with an installation.Also, I've already ran into 1 program that doesn't run (not install, but run) correctly unless I run it as an administrator, which it won't prompt me to do, I have to manually do it.
That program is Western Digital Data Lifeguard Diagnostics. When I just ran it regularly, I wasn't able to run diagnostics on any of the drives, they all came up as virtual drives. I had to run the program as administrator to get them to be listed as physical drives, and then I was able to run diagnostics on them.
I've since learned that I can set something to always run as administrator in the future, but how do I know what needs this and what doesn't? I'm still not clear on why I've seen people suggest running.exe's as administrator (right-clicking on the executable and selecting 'run as administrator' instead of just double-clicking it).
If the.exe required administrator privileges, it would prompt you for them anyway, so what purpose would this serve?Here's the thing: A program that NEEDs administrative privileges has two ways to get them:1) The '.EXE' file can be tagged by the programmer with a special flag that says it requires administrative privileges to run. When you double-click such a file, you immediately get the UAC prompt that requests privilege elevation. Resource Monitor (Start - All Programs - Accessories - System Tools - Resource Monitor) is an example of this.2) A program can make a special request for privilege elevation only when it needs it. Task Manager (Ctrl + Shift + Esc) is an example of this - it normally doesn't issue a UAC prompt but it will if you select the 'Processes' tab and click the 'Show processes from all users' button.Both these techniques require that the program be designed to use them. A lot of older programs that were designed before UAC don't do either of these - they just assume they already have the privileges they need. When you try to run these programs, they just don't work properly. For example, if you run the Firewall manager (Start - All Programs - Administrative Tools - Windows Firewall.) it shows a message that says you need administrative privileges to use it.
These older type of programs must be run with the 'Run As Administrator.' Option so that you can give them the privileges they need. When talking about User Account Control.
It's handy to think of Windows like Linux. In Linux (and Unix for that matter), you have what's called the Root account and then your user accounts. To make major changes to the OS (installing drivers for example), you need to give the installer Root access. User accounts are usually administrator accounts (unless you specify otherwise).When you're prompted for permission in Windows, you're basically being asked to grant Root access. Before Windows Vista, MS made no distinction between administrative access and root access. They were considered the same. Due to rising security concerns, they finally decided that perhaps it was time to make that distinction.
Now, like Linux, there is a difference between being an administrator and being a 'root' user.People were of course annoyed by the UAC pop-ups (as I remember, some of those people were the very same ones demanding better security in Windows). However, when I used a Mac. I noticed the same type of pop-ups when trying to configure a network adapter.
Which made me laugh that much harder at those ridiculous Mac ads trying to poke fun at UAC. I am trying to block a certain website on my own personal laptop (which someone else does use so don't want them to know that I am doing that, however, when I go through the notepad route as 'run as administrator' it prompts me and asks do you want to make changes, I am not sure what will happen next if I say yes. Will it be just this one time that will ask me to be adminstrator for or will i have to change this again and again so someone will know i have changed something on the computer. I am confused - i am on windows 7 by the way. And once I have blocked t under administrator route can I change it back again if i want to enable the website again??? The reason is that under Windows XP everyone used Administrative accounts to do everything.
The problem with that is if you're an administrator and you happen to, say, click on a malicious web page, the web page has full administrative rights too. It can go ahead and install anything it wants on your system - viruses, keystroke loggers, adware, etc.
Same goes for e-mail attachments and a host of other risks.Using an administrative account all the time is BAD security practice. Very, very bad. It's like leaving all your doors and windows unlocked because you can't be bothered to fish a key out of your pocket every time you come home.It became fairly obvious that there just wasn't any way to convince people of how bad it was, so Microsoft invented 'UAC' (User Account Control) for Vista and Windows 7. What UAC does is REMOVE your administrative privileges when you log on to an account that has them.
If you run a program that requires administrative privileges, UAC warns you that a program is trying to acquire them and lets you permit or deny.Now, if you click on a malicious web site or open an email attachment that contains a virus, you get warned that something is going on. It's up to you to be vigilant and not just blindly let programs do things unless you know what program it is and what it's trying to do.It's like opening your door up to strangers. You'd do it if, for example, you made an appointment for someone to come and clean your carpets and the guy at the door is wearing a 'Carpets 'R Us' uniform. But if a stranger shows up at your door unannounced, they'd better have a pretty convincing story before you open that door.
Thank you all,I understand that ' startInfo.Verb = 'runas'would launch the 3rd party application with administrator right thru my application, but in my case if the user makes a desktop shortcut of that using my application interface. And try to launch the application from shortcut, the application would be launchunder standard privileges therefore what I want is to set the 3rd party application's property to 'Run as administrator' thru code. So that even if the user launches that application from desktop shortcut, the application still runs under administrativeprivileges and the user don't need to manually interact with file's property.I hope, I clarify my requirement and scenario.Please don't hesitate to ask in case of any confusion.Thanks & Regards,MaverickYou've already clarified your requirement which you did not need to do again. As it is not possible to do so since Windows security will not allow that to happen. If the user does not have administrative privileges they will never be able to launchan app on their desktop with admin privileges without getting a UAC prompt and filling in the required user name and password that does have admin privileges. And if they do have admin privileges the only way to launch a program without a UAC prompt isto use task scheduler to allow the app to launch without a UAC prompt.
Even if a user with admin privileges right clicks on an applications shortcut and sets it to always run with admin privileges, before it will actually appear a UAC prompt will ask if itis okay for the app to launch with admin privileges. Unless you have configured task scheduler, WHICH YOU CAN NOT DO THROUGH CODE, to allow it to happen without a UAC prompt.I can be no clearer than that in my explanation to you.Please BEWARE that I have NO EXPERIENCE and NO EXPERTISE and probably onset of DEMENTIA which may affect my answers! Also, I've been told by an expert, that when you post an image it clutters up the thread and mysteriously, over time, the link to the imagewill somehow become 'unstable' or something to that effect.:) I can only surmise that is due to Global Warming of the threads. Hi everyone,I am trying to set 'Run as administrator' flag for a third party application thru my VB.Net application, and needs help in this regard. Can anyone please help.Thanks & Regards,MaverickIf your program is running with admin privileges then using this code it can launch another app at that level. You just need the apps path and filename unless it's registered well enough to run with just the name like notepad is.
However just because youare logged on with admin privileges does not mean your app is running with those privileges. Unless your manifest requested that level on load, in which case you would have received a UAC prompt, then perhaps your app is running with admin privileges.Or unless you correctly registered your program with task scheduler to run with highest privileges for the user logged ons privilege level so a user logged on with admin privileges, if they launch your app, it will run with admin privileges.Anyhow here's the code and when I run it in Visual Studio without Visual Studio running elevated then I get a UAC prompt to run notepad with admin privileges.
If VS is running elevated then notepad runs with admin privileges without a UAC prompt occuring. Private Sub Button1Click(sender As Object, e As EventArgs) Handles Button1.ClickDim startInfo As New ProcessStartInfoDim myprocess As New ProcessstartInfo.FileName = 'Notepad'startInfo.Verb = 'runas'startInfo.Arguments = '/env /user:' + 'Administrator' + ' cmd'myprocess.StartInfo = startInfomyprocess.StartEnd SubPlease BEWARE that I have NO EXPERIENCE and NO EXPERTISE and probably onset of DEMENTIA which may affect my answers! Also, I've been told by an expert, that when you post an image it clutters up the thread and mysteriously, over time, the link to the imagewill somehow become 'unstable' or something to that effect.:) I can only surmise that is due to Global Warming of the threads. Actually in that code I provided it was originally launching a command prompt to run as admin so the letters ' cmd' next to 'Administrator' + may need to be changed to whatever your apps.exe name is. Apparently Notepad will notrun as admin so I'm going to attempt to use it to launch another Visual Studio with admin privileges and then I'll post if that ' cmd' word had to be changed in order to do it.Please BEWARE that I have NO EXPERIENCE and NO EXPERTISE and probably onset of DEMENTIA which may affect my answers! Also, I've been told by an expert, that when you post an image it clutters up the thread and mysteriously, over time, the link to the imagewill somehow become 'unstable' or something to that effect.:) I can only surmise that is due to Global Warming of the threads. Well that entire line was switch statements for the command prompt.
This code worked to get the UAC prompt to appear for launching Visual Studio with admin privileges. And once I clicked OKAY then VS launched running with admin privileges.
Private Sub Button1Click(sender As Object, e As EventArgs) Handles Button1.ClickDim startInfo As New ProcessStartInfoDim myprocess As New ProcessstartInfo.FileName = 'C:Program Files (x86)Microsoft Visual Studio 11.0Common7IDEdevenv.exe'startInfo.Verb = 'runas'myprocess.StartInfo = startInfomyprocess.StartEnd SubPlease BEWARE that I have NO EXPERIENCE and NO EXPERTISE and probably onset of DEMENTIA which may affect my answers! Also, I've been told by an expert, that when you post an image it clutters up the thread and mysteriously, over time, the link to the imagewill somehow become 'unstable' or something to that effect.:) I can only surmise that is due to Global Warming of the threads. I don't know what you mean by a 'flag' but there's nothing you can set programatically that will elevate a program to run with admin privileges without a UAC prompt unless the program has been added to task scheduler to do so and the user attemptingto run the program is logged on with admin privileges.
As that would be the highest privilege task scheduler will allow the program to be launched for that user. If the user does not have admin privileges then task scheduler will only allow the program tolaunch with whatever the highest privilege level the user logged on has.In fact you can not set Task Scheduler programatically to my knolwedge to allow a program to run with highest privileges of the logged on user.Just as Microsoft disallows an app to use sendkeys to send enter to the UAC prompt, if you tried to do that, to make okay click on the UAC prompt. They only allow direct interaction by human for various security related functions.Please BEWARE that I have NO EXPERIENCE and NO EXPERTISE and probably onset of DEMENTIA which may affect my answers! Also, I've been told by an expert, that when you post an image it clutters up the thread and mysteriously, over time, the link to the imagewill somehow become 'unstable' or something to that effect.:) I can only surmise that is due to Global Warming of the threads. Thank you all,I understand that ' startInfo. Verb = 'runas'would launch the 3rd party application with administrator right thru my application, but in my case if the user makes a desktop shortcut of that using my application interface. And try to launch the application from shortcut, the application would be launchunder standard privileges therefore what I want is to set the 3rd party application's property to 'Run as administrator' thru code.
So that even if the user launches that application from desktop shortcut, the application still runs under administrative privilegesand the user don't need to manually interact with file's property.I hope, I clarify my requirement and scenario.Please don't hesitate to ask in case of any confusion.Thanks & Regards,Maverick. Thank you all,I understand that ' startInfo.Verb = 'runas'would launch the 3rd party application with administrator right thru my application, but in my case if the user makes a desktop shortcut of that using my application interface.
And try to launch the application from shortcut, the application would be launchunder standard privileges therefore what I want is to set the 3rd party application's property to 'Run as administrator' thru code. So that even if the user launches that application from desktop shortcut, the application still runs under administrativeprivileges and the user don't need to manually interact with file's property.I hope, I clarify my requirement and scenario.Please don't hesitate to ask in case of any confusion.Thanks & Regards,MaverickYou've already clarified your requirement which you did not need to do again. As it is not possible to do so since Windows security will not allow that to happen.
If the user does not have administrative privileges they will never be able to launchan app on their desktop with admin privileges without getting a UAC prompt and filling in the required user name and password that does have admin privileges. And if they do have admin privileges the only way to launch a program without a UAC prompt isto use task scheduler to allow the app to launch without a UAC prompt. Even if a user with admin privileges right clicks on an applications shortcut and sets it to always run with admin privileges, before it will actually appear a UAC prompt will ask if itis okay for the app to launch with admin privileges. Unless you have configured task scheduler, WHICH YOU CAN NOT DO THROUGH CODE, to allow it to happen without a UAC prompt.I can be no clearer than that in my explanation to you.Please BEWARE that I have NO EXPERIENCE and NO EXPERTISE and probably onset of DEMENTIA which may affect my answers!
Also, I've been told by an expert, that when you post an image it clutters up the thread and mysteriously, over time, the link to the imagewill somehow become 'unstable' or something to that effect.:) I can only surmise that is due to Global Warming of the threads. Haroon,Would it not be crazy if Microsoft did spent so much money to create software which needs a special user action to run it as Administrator and in the same time then gives a possibility for those who would create malicious code to make it senseless.For those who have not seen this link not yetIf it is for software in your company then let your administrator install it in a way that it runs always as administratorSuccessCorWow. I suppose Crazypennie is probably correct and I never looked at the registry after using Task Scheduler to see if it changed anything. That is really weird that Microsoft would allow that although I havent verified what Crazypennie posted I'm 100% sureit's accurate or Crazypennie wouldn't have posted it. That absolutely is the dumbest thing I think that Microsoft could allow as a security violation.
How To Run Notepad As Administrator Win 10
Good catch about the malicious intent possibilites Mr. Cor Ligthert (or should I call you Mr. Always Right).:)Oh, duh, I thought that would bypass the UAC prompt which is inaccurate I suppose. Whoops!Please BEWARE that I have NO EXPERIENCE and NO EXPERTISE and probably onset of DEMENTIA which may affect my answers! Also, I've been told by an expert, that when you post an image it clutters up the thread and mysteriously, over time, the link to the imagewill somehow become 'unstable' or something to that effect.:) I can only surmise that is due to Global Warming of the threads.