News How to run CMD or PowerShell as administrator, no right clicks required

[Admin]

Launch an elevated Command prompt or PowerShell terminal window. You can configure either program to run as admin automatically, so you don't need to right click it.

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[Blitz Hacker]

Where I appreciate the knowledge and information, are you sure posting an article on how to run a terminal/console as a SU/admin is a good idea.
Generally speaking in my experience, if they don't know how to do that on windows, they probably shouldn't be doing -anything- with the admin console

 

[das_stig]

Agree if you need admin access you would know these shortcuts from Windows 9x days.

Can only assume somebody was desperate for an article near deadline day and came up this frelling dren!

 

[apiltch]

Agree if you need admin access you would know these shortcuts from Windows 9x days.

Can only assume somebody was desperate for an article near deadline day and came up this frelling dren!

Thanks for the feedback and the Farscape reference. We do not have a "deadline day" and I came up with this because I find myself launching an elevated command prompt very often and I don't like having to right click and select "Run as Administrator" every time. It's an extra click when the only reason I ever open command prompt is to do something that requires permissions.

So I learned how to configure the CMD shortcut so that it always launches as admin with no right click necessary and thought I could take a few minutes to share the details just in case someone else might find them useful. You're right that MOST people know about right clicking to run as admin, but I bet not everyone knows that there's an option to configure CMD to always run as admin without the right click.

 

[apiltch]

Where I appreciate the knowledge and information, are you sure posting an article on how to run a terminal/console as a SU/admin is a good idea.
Generally speaking in my experience, if they don't know how to do that on windows, they probably shouldn't be doing -anything- with the admin console

Many tasks require an elevated command prompt or PowerShell terminal.

 

[QChronoD]

Typically I run 'cmd' from the address bar in explorer so i don't have to navigate to wherever I am. Too bad the Shift + Crtl + Enter doesn't work there. (it just opens normal version)
In Win 10, you could Shift + R-click the file menu and it would give options to run terminal or power shell from that folder, but that also seems to have disappeared in Win11

 

[USAFRet]

Typically I run 'cmd' from the address bar in explorer so i don't have to navigate to wherever I am. Too bad the Shift + Crtl + Enter doesn't work there. (it just opens normal version)
In Win 10, you could Shift + R-click the file menu and it would give options to run terminal or power shell from that folder, but that also seems to have disappeared in Win11

That still exists in Win 11. In Pro, at least.