Step 1: Open Task Manager. To do so, you either right-click on Start button or taskbar and then click Task Manager. Step 2: Once the Task Manager is launched, click File menu. Step 3: Now, hold down the Ctrl key and then click Run new task open Command Prompt as administrator. The first method is quite old. It is known since Windows Vista. The idea is to modify the regular shortcut and enable 'Run as administrator' in the shortcut's properties. Modify a regular shortcut. Right click Desktop and select New - Shortcut from the context menu. Type cmd.exe in the Target box. Finish the New shortcut wizard. Mar 13, 2013 You can always go back to the start button and type in 'cmd'. When the search results are displayed, right click over the command prompt and select. Run Command Prompt as Administrator. In Windows 7, follow these steps: Type cmd in Start search. In the results, you will see ‘cmd‘. Right-click on it and from the context menu select Run as Administrator. In Windows 10 and Windows 8, follow these steps: Take the cursor to the bottom left corner and right-click to open the WinX menu. Browse to C: windows System32 and right click on cmd.exe and run as Administrator. Worked for me on Windows 7. If you are trying to run a script with elevated privileges you could do the same for the script file or use the scheduler's run as a different user option to run the script.
A small tip on how to run your command prompt as an administrator or in other words, open an elevated command prompt, in Windows 7 or Windows 10/8. We have seen how to launch Command Prompt, and carry out many tasks. But some tasks required elevated privileges to be run. In such cases you have to open an elevated command prompt window. So let us see how to launch, run or open Command Prompt as an administrator or an elevated CMD with administrative privileges & rights in Windows 10/8/7.
Run Command Prompt as Administrator
In Windows 7, follow these steps:
Type cmd in Start search.
In the results, you will see ‘cmd‘.
Right-click on it and from the context menu select Run as Administrator.
In Windows 10 and Windows 8, follow these steps:
Take the cursor to the bottom left corner and right-click to open the WinX menu. Select Command Prompt (Admin) to open an elevated command prompt.
So you see, things have been made easier in Windows 10/8.1.
There are other ways to open an elevated command prompt:
- Press Ctrl+Shift+Esc to open the Task Manager. Click on File menu > Run new task. To open a command prompt window, type cmd. Remember to check the Create this task with administrative privileges check-box. Then hit Enter.
- You can also open an elevated Command Prompt from the Task Manager using CTRL key.
- Or then simply open the Start Menu or Start Screen and start typing the command line. Next, hold the Shift and Ctrl keys, and then hit Enter to open the command line in an elevated command prompt.
If you want, you can also pin Command Prompt with Admin rights Tile to Windows 8.1 Start Screen.
Now see how to open an elevated PowerShell prompt in Windows 10.
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My preference for running CMD is to use Windows+R » type
cmd
» Enter.But this doesn't open it with admin rights. Is there a way to type your way through to command prompt with admin rights?
Run Cmd File As Administrator Windows 7
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The easiest and quickest solution that follows your method, is by starting the command prompt as follows:
Press win to open the start menu. Type in
cmd
to search for Command Prompt.Press ctrl+shift+enter to launch Command Prompt as administrator.
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This works from Windows 7 and up.
win+r does not natively support this though, but an alternative (and less quick) way, is to type in
runas /user:Administrator cmd
and then type the password for the administrator account.EDIT: It seems that the latest version of Windows 10 does offer support for ctrl+shift+enter at the Win+R dialog, so you can now use it there too.
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Another fast way is to use Windows+X then hit A.
However I marked the other answer as the correct one because the question originally asked for a way to do that through Windows+R
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In Windows 10, you can also type cmd in Run window, press Shift + Ctrl + Enter, instead of just pressing just enter. It will ask for permission & cmd will be in Administrator mode.
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a simple answer:
- create a shortcut (LNK) to cmd.exe
- right-click the shortcut > properties > advanced > [v] run as administratir
- move the shortcut to a directory on the PATH
now: Win+R > admin > simply hit ok or enter.
nice to have
- UAC auto-click. it's possible, but WAY out of this scope (and a security break), so I'll press manually Alt+y.
- system-wide keyboard shortcut that links to this shortcut (or alternative command) directly. I'm using Win+Alt+C
alternative (external) commands
(Tested on windows 7)
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To run cmd as administrator through Win+R without additional password typing (but UAC warning is still in-place though) just use the following trick:
If you want to get an access to cmd by clicking a shortcut:
- Create a shortcut for cmd (C:WindowsSystem32cmd.exe)
- Right-click the shortcut > Properties
- Find 'Target' field on 'Shortcut' tab
- Replace the target value with
C:WindowsSystem32cmd.exe /C powershell 'Start-Process cmd -Verb RunAs'
Hope this helps.
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