Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. An elevated Command Prompt lets you run commands with special powers to change important computer settings. You can open an ...

When you try to start CMD you get 'Command Prompt has been disabled by your administrator'. I got around it by hex-editing CMD.EXE and replacing the P in the unicode POLICIES string inside CMD to a D, ...

If you've ever done any sort of coding, you're familiar with the Command Prompt. The Command Prompt is an app installed on all Windows computers that lets you manage the computer using text commands.

On my box at work, when I open a run prompt and type "cmd", a command prompt opens with Administrative rights. I've built a base VM image to be distributed to other developers in my group that mimics ...

Vista takes some getting used to, doesn’t it? Especially User Account Control (UAC) and the effects it has on doing things like running simple tasks. For example, if you open an ordinary command ...