We will create desktop shortcuts to make Command Prompt and PowerShell run as administrators every time we open it. For Terminal, we will change a setting.

If you want to execute a task from the command line in Windows, you first have to open Command Prompt. Here are 11 ways to do that.

Make Shift+Right-click show Open command window here instead of PowerShell. Restore Open command prompt item to folder context menu.

Unlike Command Prompt, which outputs text, PowerShell works with objects. This means that the output of a command is not just a string of characters but instead a structured object with properties ...

It's easy to start Command Prompt the normal way, but if you know which folder you want to run commands in, you'll save yourself a step or two if you open Command Prompt in the folder from the start.

You can open the Command Prompt on a PC by right-clicking the Start icon, by searching for it, or by opening the Windows System folder.

Here you can run other relevant apps including Windows PowerShell and Command Prompt in separate tabs simultaneously. By default, the Windows Terminal opens in the PowerShell tab.

It is possible to open a Command Prompt with Administrator privileges that allows you to run any command that you wish, even those that require elevated privileges. Here's how to open a ...

Method 2: Open Elevated Command Prompt via Power User Menu Opening an elevated command prompt using Power User menu is applicable to Windows 8 or Windows 10 only and not available on older versions.

With the Terminal, Windows has a common interface for Powershell, Command Prompt, and Azure Cloud Shell. This allows you to start the terminal directly with the command prompt.