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 ...

When you try to start CMD you get 'Command Prompt has been disabled by your administrator'. I got around it by hex-editing CMD.EXE and replacing the P in the unicode POLICIES string inside CMD to a D, ...

Lots of the Windows Vista tweaks that I’m going to talk about here require an elevated Command Prompt session. The easiest way to get yourself an elevated command line is to click Start, type command, ...

Vista takes some getting used to, doesn’t it? Especially User Account Control (UAC) and the effects it has on doing things like running simple tasks. For example, if you open an ordinary command ...

If you've ever done any sort of coding, you're familiar with the Command Prompt. The Command Prompt is an app installed on all Windows computers that lets you manage the computer using text commands.

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 ...