Windows 7: Elevated Command Prompt

Brink · 04 Dec 2008

How to Open an Elevated Command Prompt in Windows 7

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Brink · 27 Oct 2010

That's great news Need4steer. I'm happy to hear that you got it sorted.

ZaLiTH · 28 Oct 2010

Quote: Originally Posted by need4steer

ZaLiTH, thanks a lot to you too. Appearantly you'll arrive to work and see that we figured it out somehow...

Well, whether I help or not, I do like seeing problems solved and situations understood.

So in the end it was something so simple as the name of a shortcut...? I do tend to overlook the simplest possibilities though...

need4steer · 29 Oct 2010

Quote: Originally Posted by ZaLiTH

Quote: Originally Posted by need4steer

ZaLiTH, thanks a lot to you too. Appearantly you'll arrive to work and see that we figured it out somehow...

Well, whether I help or not, I do like seeing problems solved and situations understood.

So in the end it was something so simple as the name of a shortcut...? I do tend to overlook the simplest possibilities though...

You and Brick helped a lot. On top of your great help and knowledge, you made me keep understanding and keep searching.
Thanks a lot for both of you.

ZaLiTH · 29 Oct 2010

Quote: Originally Posted by need4steer

Quote: Originally Posted by ZaLiTH

Quote: Originally Posted by need4steer

ZaLiTH, thanks a lot to you too. Appearantly you'll arrive to work and see that we figured it out somehow...

Well, whether I help or not, I do like seeing problems solved and situations understood.

So in the end it was something so simple as the name of a shortcut...? I do tend to overlook the simplest possibilities though...

You and Brick helped a lot. On top of your great help and knowledge, you made me keep understanding and keep searching.
Thanks a lot for both of you.

That's what forums are all about..

monographix · 17 Sep 2011

When i right click "Run as Administrator" on the command prompt shortcut from the start menu, it opens a C:\users\<user>\ and not the System32 folder. (and then when i type "bcdedit" it doesnt recognize the command)

But when i right click "Run as Admin" on the actual cmd.exe in System32 (or just click open) it opens in the System32 folder (and in both cases, Admin or not, it runs "bcdedit")

What's possibly wrong with my system ?

Brink · 17 Sep 2011

Hello Monigraphix,

Are you logged in as standard user, administrator, or built-in "Administrator"?

Do you have UAC turned on or off?

monographix · 18 Sep 2011

i believe my user profile is administrator and i have UAC off

Brink · 18 Sep 2011

You might turn on UAC, and see how it works afterwards.

If it still doesn't work, then as a test, create a new administrator account, and try it while logged in the new account.

Harald7 · 19 Sep 2011

In Elevated Command mode: how do I navigate to c:.../Drivers to change a *.sys file name?
I got a BSOD: I determined it was timntr.sys from Seagate DiscWizard.
I could not uninstall/repair DiscWizard in Safe Mode, so I renamed timntr.sys to timntrOLD.sys:
Now I cant get into Safe Mode, but can get into Command mode.
C: only shows two files..Help

Brink · 19 Sep 2011

Hello Harald,

You could type copy and paste the command below to go the the Drivers folder.

cd C:\Windows\System32\drivers

You could also use this below to add Open Command Window Here as Administrator to make it easy to do so by being able to right click on the Drivers folder and this option to open a elevated command prompt already opened at this location.

Open Command Window Here as Administrator

Hope this helps,
Shawn

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