Administrative console on Windows

In Windows, we often come across situations where we have to run commands that require administrative privileges. For this, we need to open the Windows console as an administrator.

Usually, we get this error: You must be an administrator running a console session in order to use this...

Power user menu

We can open the console with administrative privileges from the power user menu (Windows + x).

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Search bar

You can open the console as an administrator by searching for it in the Windows search bar. Then, right-click on Command Line Prompt and select Run as administrator.

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