In my earlier post on security features in Windows Vista,I had described how to turn off User Account Control.
What if we want to run applications with normal user rights but only need the command prompt to be launched with elevated administrator rights?
There are two ways that I have come across to launch command prompt with administrator access,as usual there is the graphical click way and the other is a keyboard combo that does that.
For making command prompt run with administrator access,the simplest way is the graphical way.
Right click the command prompt icon and select ‘Run as administrator” option.
On selecting this,command prompt will open with elevated rights (if UAC is not turned off,you will be required to enter admin credentials).
Now the other way.
Go to Start > Run,type cmd.
Don’t hit Enter yet,instead use the keyboard combination of Ctrl+Shift+Enter.
This too will have the same effect of launching command prompt with administrator rights.
Which way do you think is more cleaner and cooler ?
Peace.