Boris writes to us:
Is there any way for me to go to a users workstation with normal access privileges and hit the command prompt (CMD) and run an administrative console or anything like a batch file. I can not figure it out. do you know how?Yup as a good Admin I ran into this one almost immediately upon running vista on the desktop. Because as we all know you should never stay logged in as a user with admin rights - unless you have to. But without further adu here it is from the howToGeek
If you are a command line junkie like me, and have been testing out Windows Vista… one of the first things you'll notice is that there is no way to run a command from the run box in "Administrator" mode. Until now.
To try this out, go to the run box and type in something (cmd, for example)
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Now instead of hitting the Enter key, use Ctrl+Shift + Enter. You will be prompted with the obnoxious User Account Control dialog… but it will then open up a command prompt in Administrator mode.
Hint: You can use Alt + C to quickly close the User Account Control dialog.
Thanks Geek your our kind of guy!