An Administrator Command Prompt window on Windows 10.

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

Windows offers a lot of different means to open the Command Prompt, and with a lot of those methods, you tin can as well open the Command Prompt with admin privileges. We've shown y'all previously how to do this in Windows 7 and Vista, so here nosotros're going to focus on three quick means y'all can open the Command Prompt with admin privileges in Windows eight and 10.

Option I: Apply the Kickoff Menu

You lot can as well open an administrative Command Prompt using simply the Start carte (or Start screen in Windows viii). Hitting Start, type "command," and you'll see "Command Prompt" listed as the main issue. Right-click that result and cull "Run as ambassador."

Right-click the Command Prompt shortcut and select "Run as administrator."

When you launch the Command Prompt with admin privileges, you'll probable see a "User Account Control" window asking for permission to continue. Become ahead and click "Yeah."

Click "Yes" when prompted.

Once you've got the "Administrator: Command Prompt" window open, you can run any command, whether it requires authoritative privileges or not.

The Administrator Command Prompt window.

Option Two: Use the Run Box

If you lot're used to using the "Run" box to open apps, y'all can employ that to launch Command Prompt with admin privileges. Press Windows+R to open the "Run" box. Type "cmd" into the box and and so press Ctrl+Shift+Enter to run the command as an administrator.

Type "cmd" in the Run dialog.

Option Three: Use the Power Users (Windows+X) Carte

Both Windows 8 and ten offer a Power Users menu that you can admission by pressing Windows+10 or just right-clicking the Kickoff push button. On the Power Users menu, choose "Command Prompt (Admin)."

Click "Command Prompt (Admin)" in the Win+X menu.

Note: If y'all run across PowerShell instead of Command Prompt on the Power Users carte, that'south a switch that came virtually with the Creators Update for Windows ten. It'due south very easy to switch back to showing the Control Prompt on the Power Users menu if you want, or y'all tin can give PowerShell a try. You tin do pretty much everything in PowerShell that you can do in Control Prompt, plus a lot of other useful things.

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And with that, you have three very easy means to run commands in the Control Prompt window as ambassador.

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