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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

This post will show you how to create a Local Administrator Account when you can’t sign in, using the UTILMAN.exe command line tool. Since you can’t sign in to Windows 11/10 and get to the desktop, ...

Every version of Windows includes its own command processor, Cmd.exe. Opening that application gives you access to the full range of command-line tools and utilities in Windows. The slow way to open ...

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, ...

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 ...