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How to open an elevated command prompt from a standard account?



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 and current login user account name, type:

Whoami

It will display: domain_name\current_login_user

If the OS is a home version, it will display the: computer_name\user_account_name

To get or check the computer name from the command prompt, type:


Ipconfig /all | find “Host”

Find the string that looks like this: Host Name . . . .  Computer_Name

This method will work on all version of Windows operating system to check or get the computer name.


Hope it will help to get things done as quickly as possible.. Cheers! Till next time.


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