Thursday, November 8, 2018

Run a program as admin from command line.


Ever run into a situation where you need to run a program as admin and Windows is not allowing you because you're in a screenshare with someone and UAC is prompting you but not let you type in your administrator credentials?  Give the following a try!

  1. Open a command prompt.
  2. Type in the following command.  
    • runas /user:Administrator cmd
    • type in your Administrator password
  3. Another command prompt will open up but this time, its run under the Adminstrator account.
  4. Navigate to the executable file you want to run, if its not in the environment path and type in the name and hit enter.
  • Note:  for some reason, you can't open the control panel by running control.exe from this.  If anyone knows why, please let me know.

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