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Saturday, November 26, 2011

How To Open Command Prompt in Windows 8 With/Without Admin Rights

This is a tutorial for beginners. If you are new to Windows and Windows 8, you need to know that many commands can only be run via a command prompt that allows you to tweak Windows 8. here’s how you would open that command prompt.

Open Regular Command Prompt

1. Click on the Metro Start button
2. Hover over Search and click on it
3. Enter command prompt into the search box as seen below:

Open Elevated Command Prompt

Follow steps 1-2 above
4. Right-click on the green command prompt bar icon
5. At the bottom a bar with two buttons will appear. Click on Advanced and then on Run as administrator to open the command prompt with elevated admin rights
 An elevated command prompt is often needed to execute commands that modify protected Windows 8 system settings e.g. the boot loader

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