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Opening An Elevated Command Prompt Window

Posted January 19, 2010 – 00:00 in: Silivrenion, syndicated

There are many parts of Windows that are useful for the power user, but none so useful and important as opening an elevated privilege command prompt window!

Windows, by default, does not run programs as administrator in Vista and 7. This is for the user’s protection, and is controlled by User Account Control. You can, fortunately, bypass these restrictions via several different methods:


Method 1
  1. Click on Vista Start button.
  2. Locate the Command Prompt menu item (buried deep inside Accessories under All Programs or appear on program access history).
  3. Right click on Command Prompt.
  4. On the pop-up right click context menu, select “Run as Administrator”.
Method 2
  1. Click on Vista Start button.
  2. Click on Run.
  3. Type in “Cmd” (without quotes) in the Open textbox.
  4. You should see “This task will be created with administrative privileges”.
  5. Click on OK or press Enter.
Method 3
  1. Press the Win keyboard key or click on Vista Start button.
  2. Type cmd into the Start Search textbox.
  3. Press Ctrl+Shift+Enter keyboard shortcut. Ctrl-Shift-Enter is the general keyboard shortcut that triggers elevation to “Run as Administrator”.
  4. Press Alt+C or press Continue to confirm the UAC elevation warning prompt.

Via Silivrenion from The Silver Onion

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