If you're used to using the "Run" box to open apps, you can use that to launch Command Prompt with admin privileges. Press ...

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 ...

To run the Command Prompt, as an Administrator, from Windows Search Box, simply type the command line in the Start menu. Then, hold the Shift and Ctrl keys, and hit Enter. In Windows 11/10, certain ...

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 ...

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 ...

Windows 11/10 has given easy access to the PowerShell or Command Prompt and PowerShell (Admin) or Command Prompt (Admin) from the desktop. All you need to do is open the Win+X menu and select what you ...

I run my Win10 machine on a standard user account, and don't mind entering the admin creds when installing/removing software. But there are certain things I run frequently that require admin access to ...

Since 2006, Microsoft has been bundling the PowerShell command-line shell that administrators can use to manage their computers and other computers on a network. "Windows PowerShell is a Windows ...

In the beginning, all we had was the command line. Then as Windows matured, the need to access that throwback interface waned. That doesn’t mean the Command Prompt is completely useless. In fact, ...