Comments on: Run programs as administrator in Windows Vista

By: Skunkmeister

Skunkmeister — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 07:21:47 +0000

I meant the Shortcut tab. Opps

By: Skunkmeister

Skunkmeister — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 07:08:34 +0000

This is raising the dead, but what the heck.

IF your admin box is grayed out, you can still set it to run as admin by right clicking the shortcut, going to properties and clicking the advanced button at the bottom of the general tab. From there, click “Run as admin…” and party on.

By: Walter

Walter — Mon, 25 Feb 2008 05:34:35 +0000

Nobody is arguing semantics. It is important to get the steps right. And the command prompt is a common application to want to run as an admin.

As cheezeweeze said, one possibility is that UAC is disabled. But there are other reasons that the Run This Program As An Administrator command might be disable. These reasons include:

* the program doesn’t require administrative privileges to run. No need to set it if you don’t need it.

* you are not logged in to an administrative account

* or the program is blocked from always running elevated.

By: Brennan

Brennan — Mon, 25 Feb 2008 04:01:29 +0000

wow, I was trying to figure out why the run as administrator option was greyed out on a shortcut to an app i use and I thought this article would be helpful, but it seems like youre all more concerned with running the command prompt as administrator…How about helping with the issue, instead of arguing symantics.

By: cheezeweeze

cheezeweeze — Fri, 22 Feb 2008 00:20:59 +0000

If the “Run this program as an administrator” check box is disabled or greyed out, then UAC is disabled. Re-enabling UAC corrects this.

By: p

Mon, 21 Jan 2008 06:39:33 +0000

check box for ‘Run this program as an administrator’ is disable, how to make it enable?

By: ND

ND — Mon, 21 Jan 2008 06:29:22 +0000

How to set this ‘Run this program as administrator’ privilege to application, through coding (in vc++)?

By: Walter

Walter — Wed, 29 Aug 2007 17:14:00 +0000

Create a shortcut to the Command Prompt (the easiest way is just to copy the one from the Start menu). Open the property sheet for the shortcut. On the Shortcut tab, click Advanced. There’s an option for Run as Administrator.

When you run it, you’ll get the UAC prompt, but you will be at cmd as administrator.

By: amk

amk — Wed, 15 Aug 2007 09:54:01 +0000

how can i set “cmd” to run as administrator without having to change UAC and rebooting. cntrl+shift+enter does not seem to work (home premium vista) or alternatively can you please suggest how can i create an icon for “cmd” and change the properties to run as administrator.
regards

By: Laurens Holst

Laurens Holst — Mon, 02 Jul 2007 13:37:10 +0000

“It is not possible to set the compatibility mode for cmd as you denoted in this article. On the property page you will get a message like, ”Compatibility modes cannot be set to this page as it is the part of the version of windows.” and also the option for changing will be greyed out.”

Create a shortcut, and press the ‘Advanced’ button in the shortcut’s properties. There you can check a ‘run as administrator’ box.