The purpose of an administrator role is to allow changes to certain aspects of your operating system that might otherwise become damaged by accident (or through malicious action) by a normal user account. If you own your own PC and it isn’t managed by your workplace, you’re probably using an administrator account.

Is it bad to run a program as an administrator?

Although Microsoft recommends against running programs as an administrator and giving them high integrity access without a good reason, new data must be written to Program Files for an application to be installed which will always require admin access with UAC enabled, while software such as AutoHotkey scripts will …

Should I run all programs as administrator Windows 10?

Running all programs as admin is a high security risk and not recommended. There’s a reason why most articles that you’ve come across only mention running as admin ‘per application’ instead of on a system level. What you want can be accomplished, but it will have consequences.