Make Me Admin Application Use

Summary

The Make Me Admin software will grant temporary admin access on your computer which then allow for the installation of software and other updates. After 10 minutes, temporary admin access on your computer will be removed and can be requested again if need be. This is currently only for Windows computers.

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1. The Make Me Admin software can be found on your computer within your start menu either by selecting the start menu and finding the application or searching for the application. Click on the application to open it. 

2.  Select "Grant Me Administrator Rights" in order to be granted temporary administrative rights on your computer for 10 minutes. After 10 minutes, the administrative permission is automatically removed. If you log out and still have administrative rights, it will automatically remove your account from the local admin group. If necessary, you can re-open the application after the time is up and grant yourself administrator rights again. 

3. When installing a program or running a program as administrator (can be accomplished by right-click the program and Run as administrator or right-click the program in the start menu and select More -> Run as administrator), you may still be prompted by User Account Control (see picture below). Please enter in your Lakeland credentials that you used to login to the computer with and then select yes. 

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Article ID: 11456
Created
Tue 12/13/22 1:04 PM
Modified
Wed 2/1/23 3:18 PM