Since the introduction of the User Account Control in Vista,
system tools and utilities of the Operating System of Windows
needs to be ran in an Administrator level. For more information
on User Account Control (UAC) you may follow the links below:
Differences in UAC when elevating system tools: Figure 1:
Administrator Account Figure 2: Standard Account There are four
ways to elevate Command Prompt as Administrator without any need
to install another application or program to do this for you. 1.
Go to Start. Click “All Programs”, then “Accessories”. 2. Look
for Command Prompt. Right click on Command Prompt and choose
“Run as Administrator”. 3. This should open a Command Prompt
with a path normally as “%HomeDrive%:\Windows\System32”. The
“%HomeDrive%” is for the drive where you installed Windows. 1.
We can use hotkeys. Go to Start. On “Start Search” type the
letters CMD. 2. Now hold down CTRL+SHIFT+ENTER once the search
result has CMD. 1. Go to Start. On “Start Search” type the
letters CMD. 2. Once a result is