Hello sle3pingz,
It's not a weird question at all. :)
Yes, that for step 3 would be how to.
An "elevated command prompt" is a command prompt that runs with elevated rights (run as administrator).
A "command prompt" is just an unelevated command prompt that has the same rights as a standard user account.
In the Win7 64bit's guest account, Start Menu> right clicked on the 'command prompt' in the start menu. Chose 'Run as admin' or 'another admin user'. Filled the required user name and password. Command prompt window opens (with the title Administrator: Command Prompt". I type 'Control'. Control Panel Opens. I click on 'Network and Sharing Center'. NSC windows opens, but there it shows 'Access Denied'.
Kindly help.
Last edited by zopfan; 23 May 2014 at 01:27. Reason: Formatting changes.
Hello Zopfan,
It's because you are logged in to a guest account. You'll need to be logged in to an administrator account instead.
I'm not sure I have selected the right Tutorial to comment on, but here goes!
This relates to a Windows 7 Pro PC in a workgroup.
Suppose one is running as a Standard User, not as an Administrator.
If one starts an elevated Command Prompt window, all the environment variables (like %username%) change to the Administrator username used to start that Command Prompt window.
I can't find (via test or Googling) how to determine the name of the original Standard User in the batch file which runs in the elevated command prompt window. Is this possible? Thanks!
Thank you very much for your kind reply.
And very sorry for my belated reply (I missed the mail notification somehow).
But the still problem persists when I'm logged into the admin account. Though I agree its very strange.
Ok I gotcha ! Did you ever figure it out ? You probably just logged into a guest account or I'm sure if you google it you can find out how to set as always fun S admin . I use to remember how to do it years ago in highsvhooonwhen they tried to clock us out of library computers but that was a LONG time ago and very old windows lol keep searching sure someone willl find or has asked the same question before. GL sorry if I sounded rude this was a long time ago somtnwven remover commenting must have been one of those nights lol
Command Prompt. Type "cmd" without quotation marks into the search bar at the bottom of the Start menu. Right-click "cmd.exe" in the list of search results and select "Run As Administrator." Type the phrase "net user administrator /active:yes" without the quotation marks at the command prompt.
Try right clicking in the bottom corner where CMD would appear normally, shouldnhihe yoi a list including run as admin!
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