On my box at work, when I open a run prompt and type "cmd", a command prompt opens with Administrative rights. I've built a base VM image to be distributed to other developers in my group that mimics ...

If you try and open an admin-level command prompt however by typing cmd in the Start Search box above The Pearl, right-clicking on cmd in the search results, and selecting Run As Administrator, the ...

An elevated Command Prompt lets you run commands with special powers to change important computer settings. You can open an elevated Command Prompt in Windows 11, 10, and 8 through the Power User Menu ...

The program is a very small (9 KBs) executable file and has no GUI. It is super simple to use. All you need to do is download it and copy it to the folder where you want to start a CMD window with ...

This is very odd, have a new Win 7 laptop and when I go to launch cmd I will normally use CTRL+SHIFT+ENTER and then I get a UAC prompt to launch as admin. Well on this laptop it won't work. Works on ...

If you're sick of seeing those UAC pop-ups, you can get rid of them by setting programs to run in administrator mode by default. Sarah is a freelance writer and CNET How To blogger. Her main focus is ...

It is sometimes useful to run programs as administrator—but what if you want to run everything as administrator? Windows 10 and Windows 11 include an administrator account, but it is disabled by ...