Win does not prompt for an Admin password in a Standard account

Nzyme · 05 Apr 2017

I have two accounts - Administrator & Standard. When I login to the standard account and tried accessing the admin folders (C:\Users\Admin...), it asked me for my admin password initially. However, after entering the correct password, I was able to access the files and folders under the admin account.

Now, after several days and multiple shutdowns/restarts, whenever I login to the standard account and click on the admin folders (Desktop, Music, etc.), I am directly able to see the folder contents without windows asking me for an admin password. I would like Windows to ask me for the admin password each and every time an admin folder is accessed from the standard account. Please advise.

dalchina · 10 Apr 2017

Suggest:
Logged in as admin, go to C:\Users\<your admin folder> in file explorer

and rt click it, Properties, Security.

My admin account shows only
System
<my account>
Administrators

You may have somehow set up permissions for Everyone or Users, for example.

Bree · 10 Apr 2017

Nzyme said:

I would like Windows to ask me for the admin password each and every time an admin folder is accessed from the standard account.

I don't think you can do that. Windows' behaviour when you first try to access a folder for which you don't have permission is to ask if you want to grant permanent access. For a standard user the UAC prompt will ask for an admin password to do this. You can revoke the permission later by deleting the added user account from the permissions for that folder if you wish.

In this example User is a standard account and Maintenance is an administrator. Signed in as User we get...