


Such administrative tasks include installing software and drivers, changing system-wide settings, viewing or changing other user accounts, and running administrative tools.”Īnyway, let’s just have a look at what’s going on, then I’ll show you how to use Task Manager, of all tools, to fix the problem.

Microsoft explains it thusly: “With User Account Control (UAC) fully enabled, interactive administrators normally run with least user privileges, but they can self-elevate to perform administrative tasks by giving explicit consent with the Consent UI. The way you learn that is by the command producing the error message “ elevated permissions are required.” But every so often something comes up that requires permissions beyond the usual. It’s curious that for most everything you’d do on a Windows system, the default login account is plenty for installing software, deleting programs and just about all administrative tasks.
