Windows 10: How to stay logged in as an administrator for a single program?

Our teenager recently got a gaming PC with Windows 11, and we have to set up screen time restrictions for him. We have set up Windows Family Safety, created two accounts on the computer, one of which is his and the other is ours with admin permissions. The problem is that one of his games, COD Black Ops Cold War will only work if it is run as an administrator. We set the game to run as an administrator, but now we have to enter our password for him every time he launches the game.Is there a way to run the program as an administrator on a guest account without having to log in every time we wan

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How to stay logged in as an administrator for a single program?

Our teenager recently got a gaming PC with Windows 11, and we have to set up screen time restrictions for him. We have set up Windows Family Safety, created two accounts on the computer, one of which is his and the other is ours with admin permissions. The problem is that one of his games, COD Black Ops Cold War will only work if it is run as an administrator. We set the game to run as an administrator, but now we have to enter our password for him every time he launches the game.

Is there a way to run the program as an administrator on a guest account without having to log in every time we want to launch the game? We want to give him administrator privileges only for this game.

 

Staying logged on

Thank you for that information.

If you want to stay logged in to your computer, please follow the steps below:

• Go to Settings.
• Click on Personalization.
• Select Lock screen.
• Click on Screen timeout settings.
• From there you can now change the settings to Never.

Let us know if you need further assistance and we will be glad to help.

 

Staying logged on

Thank you - that seems to have solved my problem. (But why could I not have been told this in the first place (rather than requiring me to look for "lower right hand corner select Screen Saver" direct from the Personalisation screen?!(