How do I login as a windows non-admin from Admin account without a password

Question

I administer a small windows domain for my in-law's family business. I regularly need to install software for their users, and then I want to test it as a non-administrator user. My question is as a windows admin, how can switch to the user account without needing their password?

Answer 1

You cannot! Create a non-Admin dummy account only for your use, which only you will have access to check if non-Admin rights are working fine.

Answer 2

On windows, you cannot become another user without logging on (via password or other credentials such as fingerprints).

There is a discussion of a very similar question here .

Also, you may want to consider the effects of user account control (UAC) which displays a prompt as soon as a process needs elevated privileges, even if run as a privileged user (unless the application meets certain requirements such as being digitally signed). See this question .