Tag: User Account Control

Run a program as a different user in the Windows 10 UI

by Ian Blair December 9, 2019 No Comments

Occasionally you might need to run a program but need additional rights, for example if you are logged in as a normal non administrator user, and you have to do something that requires administrator rights. Instead of logging out and logging back in again, or logging in again as a new user to the machine […]

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How to take a screenshot of the Windows UAC dialog

by Ian Blair December 8, 2019 No Comments

Consider this you are writing a training manual, some software documentation or even a blog post and the program you are working with requires the user to approve the Windows UAC dialog. You need to take a screenshot but each time you try nothing happens. Here is the solution When the dialog triggers, select the […]