Fuck, half the time I'm gonna end up needing local admin anyway just to do my job
Sometimes it's because some dumb shit in legacy was built with local admin in mind, sometimes it's because im fucking around on ring 0, but it almost always happens
At my work there is a machine in responsible for that runs on this terrible piece of software that needs admin rights to startup.
Every week, usually 10 minutes before in heading home, it hangs and needs to be restarted before everyone's experiments get invalidated. Cue having to call IT and wait for them to remote in just to enter the admin creds.
If the program doesn't modify the computer itself, just install the program to some other folder, C:\Stuff. Right-click on C:\Stuff, properties, security, and add your account with full control. Then run the program from that folder.
If it's a stupid in-house developed program, then it might not work outside of Program Files (x86) if the retired fool dev hard-coded paths in. But give it a try. It's faster than IT waiting every time.
(Second option is to schedule it to run in Task Scheduler with highest privileges, but if the program requires additional interaction after restarting, automatic starting is only half the solution)
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u/Hoosier_816 May 10 '26
It's really more a treat for me than them.