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How can I always run the command prompt as administrator?
As a developer, I often have the need to open a command prompt for various purposes. For example, I use iisreset to restart my local web server.
I typically open the command window in one of two ways:...
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How to display/change the owner of a file on Windows 7
Is there a way to display the owner of folders and files from the command line in Windoews 7 command prompt?
Can you change the owner of a folder or file to some "arbitrary" user which is not your ...
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Change Windows 7 file permissions from command prompt
How can I change Windows 7 file permissions using the command prompt?
I want to change permissions in program files, but cacls is not working for me.
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Command line option to open program as administrator in Windows 7
If I want to open Notepad and edit the hosts file, I have to invoke the Start menu, find the Notepad shortcut, right click and run as administrator, then open the hosts file in Notepad in order to ...
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Restoring 'TrustedInstaller' as owner for executable in Windows folder
After changing the ownership of executables in the Windows directory (explorer.exe, regedit.exe, etc.), I can't seem to change it back to TrustedInstaller using icacls.exe. Using the GUI method (...
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Is it possible to shutdown a remote computer running Windows 7 via Telnet?
I've successfully connected to my Windows 7 desktop over wifi via Telnet from an XP Home netbook. To login, I use the following command:
telnet -l "win7desktop\win7user" win7desktop
win7user in this ...
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giving permission to program to run with out confirmation in start command windows
I am using this
start /b C:\wamp\wampmanager.exe
command to start a program in my windows( Windows 7 Ultimate - 64 bit).
But then the program want a permission to run
Do you want to allow the ...
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How to call a program to be run with admin privileges but under the same user (Windows Command Prompt)
I need to invoke a program with admin privileges from command prompt.
it should prompt to the user an alert such as:
I found many answers like:
runas.exe /user:administrator %~dp0\MY_PROGRAM.BAT
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In Windows 7 Pro, is it safe to set the "Current owner" to "Administrators ([Name]-PC\Administrators)" of the whole C drive ...?
In Windows 7 Professional, is it safe, within the Advanced Security Settings of the C drive, to set the "Current owner" to "Administrators ([Name]-PC\Administrators)" of the whole drive including "...
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Bypassing User Account Control [duplicate]
I'm trying to start an exe from the command line
shell> wampmanager
When I do that, a User Account Control popup pops up and prompts me for permission. I press "yes" to run and it runs. But is it ...
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Administrator getting "access denied" - unable to create directory
As far as I can tell, I am in the Administrators group on Windows 7 Service Pack 1.
With CMD prompt pinned to my Start menu, I rightmouse and select Run as Admin and get this error on xcopy:
C:\&...
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Change registry permission of 3 keys does not work with regini
I'm preparing a batch script that should help me to remove 3 keys from the registry. Unfortunately nobody has permission to edit the keys, except for TrustedInstaller.
To execute my reg file that ...
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Creating a C++ executable locks the file for some time
I have an error which started showing up only a few days ago. I'm running Windows 7 Professional x64 bit.
I have a .cpp file, and I use the command prompt to run the following command:
g++ -std=c++...
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matching dir /a:r and icacls
I am trying to see file permissions on command line. I came across a similar question but cannot understand icacls output.
In the following example, c10.dat is a read-only file, as shown by dir /a:r ...
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Trouble deleting registry using CMD
I am trying to delete the following registry key via CMD but am getting "ACCESS DENIED"
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\ControlSet001\Control\Pastel
The above registry cannot be deleted manually as it ...
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