Facebook has come under fire this week for the massive Cambridge Analytica controversy sweeping the internet, which gave way to the #DeleteFacebook campaign. But even in light of the situation, it ...

"Garry's Mod," also known as "GMod," is a computer video game that allows players to create and edit a virtual environment by importing objects, characters and maps from other games. A key feature of ...

People are never satisfied are they? They want security, but they don’t want the weight of all that armor. Our annual Privileged Access Management survey showed up some interesting results around the ...

Some files force programs to perform operations that require administrator rights. As an example, if you received a ZIP file containing several business spreadsheets ...

Facebook Messenger, the company's messaging app, supports group chats, which are convenient for arranging events or keeping up-to-date with multiple friends outside of the primary Facebook product.

Microsoft's August 2025 Windows Security Update is causing pain for administrators after a fix for a vulnerability led to some unintended consequences.… The fix was related to CVE-2025-50173, which ...

A researcher has created a remote print server allowing any Windows user with limited privileges to gain complete control over a device simply by installing a print driver. In June, a security ...

I’ve heard for years that you shouldn’t use your Mac with administrator privileges. I 100% agree with that statement, and I still use my Mac with administrator privileges. But to be perfectly honest, ...

First, you need to terminate the existing explorer.exe process. Open Task Manager Locate explorer.exe process Right-click on it and select End Task. Having done that you have three options to run ...

PowerToys will display the ‘We’ve detected an application running with administrator privileges‘ notification when an elevated process is detected. PowerToys only needs to be elevated when it has to ...

I need to check if the currently logged-on user (NT, 2000, XP) had admin privileges by checking a registry key. Is this even possible? <BR><BR>Actually, I need to check if the user can install ...

Back in the early days of Linux, things were exponentially more complicated. The distributions were far less mature and required a particular system account to get things done. That account was root - ...