Doing day-to-day work in an administrator account poses an elevated security risk. Here are some options for how to switch to a standard account. One of the commonly recommended safe-computing ...

We can change the account type of a user account in five easy ways. We’ll explore the following methods in this section: Change a user account type between Standard and Admin from User Accounts.

Admin Privileges and User Accounts have become standard on Windows. There are two types of users on Windows: Administrators and Standard users. While administrators get unrestricted access to all the ...

Giving users only standard privileges on common OS platforms like Windows and MacOS has become almost become de facto IT security advice for many environments. But how does this play out in the real ...

To install an app in Windows 10, standard level users are prompted for elevated credentials. With a few tweaks, you can change that behavior to deny such requests. For a standard level user of ...

Ubuntu developers have fixed a series of vulnerabilities that made it easy for standard users to gain coveted root privileges. “This blog post is about an astonishingly straightforward way to escalate ...

For security’s sake, Microsoft wants more desktop business users to be ‘”standard.” The next generation of the company’s Windows operating system, code-named Longhorn, will allow users to perform more ...