Much of the time, opening the Command Prompt as a regular user is all you need. Sometimes, though, you'll need to open the Command Prompt as an administrator so that you can run commands that require ...

On my box at work, when I open a run prompt and type "cmd", a command prompt opens with Administrative rights. I've built a base VM image to be distributed to other developers in my group that mimics ...

This is very odd, have a new Win 7 laptop and when I go to launch cmd I will normally use CTRL+SHIFT+ENTER and then I get a UAC prompt to launch as admin. Well on this laptop it won't work. Works on ...

It is probably the first thing you need to do when you get the aforementioned error while opening the Command Prompt on your computer. At times, system administrators ...

An administrator account is the most powerful account available on Windows 7; it allows full access to administrator mode, giving you the ability to make changes to not only your own user account, but ...

The command line may seem like an esoteric tool for developers and uber-hackers, but it has plenty of useful tricks up its sleeve. Here are a few easy things you can do from a terminal window that ...

In the beginning, all we had was the command line. Then as Windows matured, the need to access that throwback interface waned. That doesn’t mean the Command Prompt is completely useless. In fact, ...

You can open Command Prompt by right-clicking the Start icon. Other ways to open Command Prompt include through the Start Menu and desktop search. The most recent ...