No administrator privileges in elevated command prompt

[Bones91]

Hi,

I'm trying to setup a WiFi Hotspot on my Laptop running Windows 7.
When I enter the command:

netsh wlan set hostednetwork mode=allow "ssid=myssid"  "key=mykey” keyUsage=persistent

in an elevated command prompt, it says:
"You must run this command from a command prompt with administrator privilege."

I have an administrator account and had never problems with it.

Does someone has an idea what the problem could be?

 

[Kari]

Hi Bones, welcome to the Seven Forums.

The message you get shows absolutely clear without any doubts that you are not running the command from elevated Command Prompt. That message is only shown when a command requiring administrative privileges has been run from a normal Command Prompt.

When run from an elevated Command Prompt, your command syntax is OK (highlighted yellow) and runs as it should, the output (highlighted green) showing it's working:

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Two telltales of an Elevated Command Prompt, numbers referring to respective numbers in above screenshot:

1. The title has word Administrator in it
2. The prompt (by default) is C:\Windows\System32

Kari

 

[Bones91]

Hi Kari,
Thx for the quick response.

The command prompt looks exactly as in your picture.
It says Administrator in the title and starts in the system32 folder.

Cheers

 

[Kari]

Are you logged in to your normal user account? How do you open the elevated command prompt (please tell exactly what you do to open it)?

 

[Kari]

Asking ideas from other members a respected senior geek told me this: "I have heard of instances where having UAC level set to other than the first two levels can cause some strange results, could be worth a check".

Worth checking.

http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/turn-user-account-control-on-off#1TC=windows-7

 

[Kari]

Another suggestion from another member: create a new admin account, log in to that account and check if elevated command prompt works as it should.