Anyone know how to circumvent the admin when installing a game on PC

So, my husband left me one of his laptops while he is out of town so that my son could use mine for school and I'd still have a laptop to use. Unfortunately, there is a pin on it for the admin which my husband says I don't need. But I can't use the laptop for anything that involves gaming because I can't install any games. This means I can't play with my son now that school is out, or get the auto-update to quit interrupting everything I'm doing with messages that I need to finish installing the downloaded updates.

Is there something else I can do to install the games? What am I doing wrong? Do I really not need the pin to fix these issues?

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SensitiveCha0s · M

Just to clarify.... you are talking about the Windows PIN, correct? Or is this a work computer?

CleverFunnyNameGoesHere · F

@SensitiveCha0s It's the windows pin on a home laptop. I'm just going to ask my husband and look like an idiot for not being able to install a game without his help. (I was going to include a facepalm emoji on this response but apparently I can't even find that tonight. Oye.)

SensitiveCha0s · M

@CleverFunnyNameGoesHere

For you....

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SensitiveCha0s · M

@CleverFunnyNameGoesHere

😂😂

Don’t feel too badly. Could just be the way hubby set it up and doesn’t realize you need it.

CleverFunnyNameGoesHere · F

@SensitiveCha0s Possibly. His computers and my computers run the same window 10 as far as I can tell, but it feels super different.

SensitiveCha0s · M

@CleverFunnyNameGoesHere make sure it’s not that awful “Windows 10S” mode.... which only allows you to install apps from Microsoft

CleverFunnyNameGoesHere · F

@SensitiveCha0s Oh fuck no. I had to talk my mom through removing that from her new laptop over the phone just a couple of nights ago so she could download Chrome and it was one of the most painful 4 hours of my life.

SensitiveCha0s · M

@CleverFunnyNameGoesHere thank fuck! ;)

SensitiveCha0s · M

@CleverFunnyNameGoesHere at the outset of the pandemic, I knew we had to get a new laptop for kids schooling. The one that I wanted was unavailable, and I had to settle for a Windows 10S model. I took great care to research it, and once I found out you could circumvent that, I bought it and set it up carefully.