User Account Control is,\u00c2 an important part of the security protection that Windows Vista offers.<\/p>\n
For any user with administrative credentials, you can always execute a process with full admin rights by right-clicking on the executable or shortcut and choosing “Run as Administrator”.<\/p>\n
For myself, I regularly want to open an admin-level command prompt, and it’s a distraction to have to move my hands off the keyboard to go through the elevation contortions. So I was delighted to find a little keyboard shortcut for launching an elevated process. Simply press Ctrl+Shift+Enter<\/strong> from the search bar<\/strong> on the start menu<\/strong> with a selected application, and that triggers elevation.<\/p>\n For example, to launch an elevated command prompt, simply press the Win key<\/span>; type cmd<\/span>; press Ctrl+Shift+Enter<\/span>; and then hit Alt+C<\/span> to confirm the elevation prompt.<\/p>\n Six keystrokes to an elevated command prompt!<\/p>\n (Once I’ve got an elevated command prompt, I always like to execute color 4f<\/span> as my first input so that this console window is visually differentiated from other non-elevated windows.)<\/p>\n