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 ...

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 ...

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 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 ...

Of late, Windows 11/10 users who have been facing some problems, may have read a lot of time, run this or that command in PowerShell to fix this or that problem. While most of us are familiar with the ...

An administrator account is the most powerful account available on Windows 7; it allows full access to administrator mode, giving you the ability to make changes to not only your own user account, but ...

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 ...