Change Command Prompt to Always Run as Administrator

Let's play a quick spot the difference game. Tell me the difference between the two pictures?

Did you see it? The 2nd one is running as admin!

To always run command prompt as administrator (which is needed in a lot of cases), right click on the shortcut to command prompt and choose properties.

Then choose the Advanced tab when the properties window comes up.

Finally, choose the check box for run as administrator. Now when you use that shortcut it will be ran as the administrator!

Fast Command Prompt Opening in Windows

A quick way in Windows to open a command prompt in a given directory:

Simply type 'cmd' into the address bar and hit enter.

Type 'cmd' into the address bar and hit enter

This will pop up a command prompt for whichever directory path is in the address bar at the time of typing 'cmd' and hitting enter.

This is very useful as you won't have to go through and type the file paths out to get a command prompt at a particular directory.