Windows 10 has User Account Control (UAC for short). Microsoft introduced UAC in Windows Vista (and Windows Server 2008) to protect unwanted elevated commands on your system. Before such commands are executed the computer will ask you for Administrator rights, which protects your operating system and your personal files.

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DNS is short for Domain Name System. The Domain Name System delegates the assigning of domain names and the mapping of those names to the authoritative name servers for each domain. While this is a quite complex system on the back-end for users it’s quite easy to change the DNS settings on their computers. If you wish to learn more about [...]

1. Right-click the network icon in your taskbar and choose Open Network and Sharing Center.

2. Click on your currently active internet connection, for example see the image below

3. Click on Properties

4. Double-click Internet Protocol Version 4 (TCP/IPv4)

5. Change the DNS servers to your settings

6. [...]