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    From Lars Anders@21:1/5 to All on Sun Jan 29 05:18:23 2023
    C:\Windows\system32>su administrator
    'su' is not recognized as an internal or external command,
    operable program or batch file.

    I am the only one who uses my laptop and I set it up normally (as I recall) something like five or more years ago, and I've never logged into the administrator account explicitly.

    When I right click to run as admin on an executable it doesn't ask for the password when the User Account Control box comes up.

    When I want to open an admin command prompt, I use the search to find the
    "Run as administrator" shortcut which doesn't ask me for a password when
    the User Account Control box comes up.

    Or I just type Win+R > cmd {ctrl+shft+enter} which does the same thing.

    Then in the command prompt I ask "whoami" and it says "you/you" and not "admin/admin" which works for me because I have admin permissions.

    But how would I even know what the admin password is that I set years ago? Obviously I'll have to use trial and error (I have ideas what it could be).

    But is there a way from my user account to "log into" the admin?
    Sort of like how Linux has the switch user "su" command?

    C:\Windows\system32>su administrator

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