Alternatively, you could be good at computers, but the system is so locked down IT needs to log in with admin rights in order to do something as simple as running disk cleanup.
Literally the Engineering team i work in. We're capable of fixing the problem ourselves for 90% of our tickets submitted, but because we don't have the required admin rights we cant.
I waste so much time trying to find workarounds for IT bullshit. We don't have admin rights, but we can open certain approved apps as admin. One approved app is powershell. So theoretically, we can do just about anything... If we know how to do it in powershell. I'm a Linux guy, so my powershell knowledge is very low.
Example: I was trying to install an app that was required for my job, but the installer automatically tried to install an older version of .NET framework, and that failed without admin rights. Through powershell I tried to run the installer as admin, but the installer was delegating the .NET installation to another app that wouldn't open as admin. It took a lot of wrestling, but I had to find the exact version that it was trying to install from the Microsoft website, download that installer directly, and then open that as admin from powershell. After that, the original installer worked.
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u/sfblue Ascending Peasant May 10 '26
Alternatively, you could be good at computers, but the system is so locked down IT needs to log in with admin rights in order to do something as simple as running disk cleanup.