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I have a Windows 7 VM where the user is an administrator. Every time I try to run cmd it opens with administrative access (as visible on the titlebar).

Is it possible to run cmd from this account without administrative privileges?

I am launching it from the start menu.

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  • A program will only run in elevated mode if started from a program which is already in elevated mode. Please better describe your problem.
    – harrymc
    Commented Apr 13, 2020 at 8:19

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I don't believe it's possible from the Start-Menu, unless you create a shortcut pointing to a CLI script.

You can use the program runas.exe from a command prompt to open a second command prompt in the context of an other user. From a command prompt:

runas /u:yourdomain\youruser c:\windows\system32\cmd.exe

where youruser is a standard user account.

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