I have mentioned this before in a prior article but I thought I’d create its own entry as I am sure I will be referring to it in the future.
Under Windows Vista and Windows 7, any command prompt you open will not have elevated rights if you are running under a standard account. This is to help prevent nasty applications from undertaking unwanted activities on your computer as well as protecting yourself from invoking commands that have the ability to make deeper alterations to your computer.
Anyway, if you want to open a command prompt as an administrator you can do the following:
- Click “Start”,
- Type in “cmd”,
- Hold down “Shift” and “Control” and click on “cmd” in the list,
- Accept any User Account Control prompts that may appear.
If you already have a shortcut to the command prompt pinned to your taskbar in Windows 7 then you can simply do the following:
- Hold down “Shift” and “Control”,
- Click on the command prompt shortcut on the taskbar,
- Accept any User Account Control prompts that may appear.
Hopefully you will find that more efficient method of opening an administrative command prompt.
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