when I'm having troubles with a program, why does running as administrator sometimes help?

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Amet Jadir DeCrypt

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I have an admin account already, but sometimes a program will error out for no reason and I'll usually turn to the 'run as administrator' option, and it'll work 40% of the time, but why? I'm already an admin, surely nothing is different when I do this, right?
 
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its just windows making sure because running as administrator allows you to make changes to the computer. even if you are admin it will still want to make sure.

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The thing is there are levels of acces in windows. For example, I'm an admin ( the only admin on my computer and my network) but sometimes I have to run certain programs as administrator to make them work. The reason is because even though you might be logged in as admin the system will still treat like a normal user, until you run an application that requires administrative privileges, since those apps can make changes and potentially messup your computer.
 
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I wouldn't know what OSX does because I'm a windows user but yeah something like that except if you weren't logged in as admin and you tried to make a change then windows would ask you for the admin password in order to make the change. if you are already logged in as admin then its just a click for confirmation. that's just how windows is
 
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