Working in a fast pace environment, will need to get things done quickly to do other tasks that needs to be done also. Opening a command prompt in a standard user account without signing off and without logging off is possible with the “runas” utility command in Windows environment. Open the run box and type “ cmd ”, to open the command prompt window. Then type: Runas /user:admin_account cmd It will ask for a password, if authentication is valid then a new command prompt window will open in an elevated mode. Command works from Windows 7+ version. That’s it, you just open an elevated command prompt window in a user standard account. Since most users are hungry with the admin password, just watch out with the shoulder sniffing tactic. Other useful admin commands in a windows environment: If ever you have a custom local admin account name and you can’t remember, type: net users It will display all the local user accounts. To check domain name
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