My friend needs help with a computer problem regarding administrator passwords.

[otto-san]

My friend and I play a lot of games together, and he's run into a small issue on almost every single one, and on the one game that didn't, his anti-virus said 'he was being hacked' and so he couldn't play that one anymore (probably mostly to be safe). The administrator password.

His mother's user is the administrator on the computer, and he's using Windows 7. Every time he wants to play a game, his mother has to be there to type the password in. She knows the programs are safe and would probably love to remove the need for the password on those games.

So is there a way to remove the need of the administrator password on a single program on Windows 7?

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[Chrono]

I'm pretty sure there's a setting so it'll always run as an administrator.

[otto-san]

I'm pretty sure there's a setting so it'll always run as an administrator.

on some programs it just makes it always run as administrator and the setting for that is off.

[stuntman021]

http://ophcrack.sourceforge.net/
burn the livecd of this to a blank cd, restart computer, go to boot options, set it to boot from cd, then let it work its magic
you should have the password in 10 minutes
tell your mom you fixed it or something so she doesn't know you know the password

[otto-san]

http://ophcrack.sourceforge.net/
burn the livecd of this to a blank cd, restart computer, go to boot options, set it to boot from cd, then let it work its magic
you should have the password in 10 minutes
tell your mom you fixed it or something so she doesn't know you know the password

I don't think he needs it so badly he has to do something like that.

[stuntman021]

I don't think he needs it so badly he has to do something like that.

it takes like 15 minutes

[otto-san]

it takes like 15 minutes

it's a complex situation, that just really isnt an option sadly :c

[Chrono]

There might also be a moral conflict because then his friend would be lying instead of actually fixing the problem.

[otto-san]

There might also be a moral conflict because then his friend would be lying instead of actually fixing the problem.

yeah.

He's tried changing permissions but that didn't work at all.

I tried it too in any way I could think of and still didn't work.

[Chrono]

The only possible thing I could think of is for his mother to trust him with the password.

It'll help the family relationship too so it's win-win unless he forgets something up.