Your Question: How Do I Install Drivers as Administrator?

Many driver and software packages need to be executed as an administrator to install all necessary components, even if the user is currently logged in as an administrator. You can do this by right-clicking on the setup file and selecting Run as administrator.

Do you need admin rights to install drivers?

To install a driver, the user should have local admin privileges (for example, by adding to the local Administrators group). This is great from the point of security because the installation of an incorrect or fake device driver could compromise PC or degrade the system performance.

How do I install something as an administrator?

Here are the steps:

1. Right-click Start.
2. Select Command Prompt (Admin).
3. Type net user administrator /active:yes and press Enter. …
4. Launch Start, click the user account tile on the top left of the screen and choose Administrator.
5. Click Sign in.
6. Locate the software or .exe file that you want to install.

23 окт. 2015 г.