andrewlen Well-known member Joined Aug 17, 2021 Posts 217 Location Victoria, Australia Aug 26, 2021 #1 How to pin a CMD icon to your Taskbar and configure it to open an Administrative Command Prompt First, open an administrator command window. If you don't know how here's one way explained below. Press your Windows Key and type CMD On "Best match" (Command Prompt) click "Run as administrator" An administrative command window opens. Leave it open for now and perform the following steps: 1) On your Taskbar, right-click the Command Prompt Icon 2) Click "Pin to Taskbar" Right-click the Command Prompt Icon on your Taskbar again and continue to Step 3. 3) Right-Click the CMD Icon on your Taskbar 4) Right-Click Command Prompt 5) Left-Click Properties 6) Click the Advanced button 7) Check the "Run as administrator" box 8) Click the OK Button to close Advanced Properties 9) Click the OK Button to close the Command Prompt Properties box Done! You can now open an administrative (elevated) command prompt any time with a single click on the Command Icon on your Taskbar. Hope you found this useful. Regards, Andrew Attachments cmd1.png 64.9 KB · Views: 4 cmd3.png 81.2 KB · Views: 5 cmd3.png 87.1 KB · Views: 4 cmd4.png 63.7 KB · Views: 3 cmd3.png 87.1 KB · Views: 4
How to pin a CMD icon to your Taskbar and configure it to open an Administrative Command Prompt First, open an administrator command window. If you don't know how here's one way explained below. Press your Windows Key and type CMD On "Best match" (Command Prompt) click "Run as administrator" An administrative command window opens. Leave it open for now and perform the following steps: 1) On your Taskbar, right-click the Command Prompt Icon 2) Click "Pin to Taskbar" Right-click the Command Prompt Icon on your Taskbar again and continue to Step 3. 3) Right-Click the CMD Icon on your Taskbar 4) Right-Click Command Prompt 5) Left-Click Properties 6) Click the Advanced button 7) Check the "Run as administrator" box 8) Click the OK Button to close Advanced Properties 9) Click the OK Button to close the Command Prompt Properties box Done! You can now open an administrative (elevated) command prompt any time with a single click on the Command Icon on your Taskbar. Hope you found this useful. Regards, Andrew
andrewlen Well-known member Joined Aug 17, 2021 Posts 217 Location Victoria, Australia Oct 21, 2021 #3 Glad you think so and got some value out of it DakotaL. My thanks for your feedback :)